Friday, February 14, 2014

Blog 2: Global inequalitys in social stuctures, economics and health.

Benjamin Gary, 2/14, 4:30 Report on Inequality Disorder.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/02/14/inequality-disorder/



     The article talks about how economic and social inequality is becoming an impressive negative force in the world. So much so that the gap between rich and poor is reminiscent of “Victorian Times” and the social structures are becoming dehumanizing forces in the way they separate people from having the option to make positive decisions about how they are governed, their health and the wellbeing of their environment. These are problems that can be felt worldwide from impoverished nations to the wealthiest of capitalist structures. This report points out that was is most surprising in a modern organic society is how a product can start out as a raw cheap material but its cultivation into a consumable product gradually gains in costs to the consumer, great returns to the developer and the lowest possible paycheck to the workers who made the product. Concluding the Inequality and Social Disorder subsection the article states, “With poverty goes vulnerability and exploitation: the “dehumanization” of the oppressed at the hands of the oppressors.” That oppressor being the minority of business owners who exploit the environment, consumer and worker for profit. The article points out that there is a stark contrast between desired healthcare and realistic inadequate healthcare. The report states that poverty is “the world’s biggest killer and the greatest cause of ill-health and suffering” and the cause of inadequate healthcare across the world. According to this article the global inequalities can be summed up as a recent (within the last 50 year) distancing of nations states from genuine interaction concerning what is right for its people. In developing countries the inequalities include domination over women, ignoring the destitute and the exploitation of the working class.

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