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The myth of the 99% and the top 1% “The statistics that describe the magnitude of economic inequality are stark. Before taking into account the effects of redistributive government programs, the richest 1% of Americans make 20% of the income.” The wealth gap between these two categories is for sure bigger than it should be and it might an issue that politicians and our system might have difficulties to reduce but does our world would function if no gap exists at all ? In fact, while the wealth gap need to exist because this is how our world works, especially our business world is there something to do to reduce the gap between the 99% and the 1% knowing that because politics and globalisation plays an important role, then, does inequality has …show more content…

I don’t agree with what Krugman says because people such as Steve jobs are not overpaid, they worked for this money and they deserve it. I don’t believe that the super-eire is over paid, they deserve their money, therefore I would change this sentence and they that it is the 99% that are not enough paid. In order to prove this statement, I would refer to “Nickel and Dimed” from Barbara Ehrenreich. Indeed, she experienced what is like to be part of the poor class and working hard for a minimum wage as a maid in a company. Nowadays, there people who work hard and still got the minimum wage because they did not has the chance have an education, or because they were born in the wrong place at the right moment. It might be true that some of the 1% had chance, and took their family firm or they dad’s legacy however its not the case for everyone. Some built their own fortune …show more content…

I understand that some people as we discussed in class have not a chance to get out of their getto, however if they not try, they will never did. Therefore, I also believe that sometimes they need a bit of luck. I don’t agree with Freeland when she says that when the super rich rise, other will fall. I believe, however than that the future of the 99% is based on the top 1%, I believe that the future of everyone is based on our system. When I say system I mean globalisation as Freedman explains in his essay. He explains that Globalisation, basically gives power to any individuals man. This is the same opinion that Freeland explains in her Ted Talk she believes that globalization and new technology are actually fueling, rather than closing, the global income gap. How the twin economic transformation ( Globalisation and Tech. Term used by Freehand at 5:21 in Ted talk ) changed our life and rise the power of the top 1% ? She basically explain that this is only the case for the very very smart, and very lucky there is a chance that you get very rich very quickly.

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In the book Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America, journalist Barbara Ehrenreich goes undercover into the world of minimum wage employees to research how difficult it is to live off of their salary. She splits up the book into three sections where she tackles these jobs in diverse areas to be able to compare her data. In each section Ehrenreich plows through several jobs, sometimes struggling to afford housing and food. She takes these first-hand experiences and compiles them into a book that gives readers an insight to the world of minimum wage workers. Ehrenreich begins her journey by taking time to prepare for the hardships she may face along the way.

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4. I feel the conveyance of riches is uncalled for on the grounds that the general population who are in the main one percentile are profiting. They needn 't bother with all that cash even to satisfy their most out of this world fantasies. Those nationals who fit in with the lower levels of pay ought without not need to endure when there is one and only percent of Americans who have cash that can be disseminated in an unexpected way. The other reason is that the matter of why it is unreasonable is on the grounds that their just such a variety of individuals who are making admirably underneath what they

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I. Introduction a) The final Chapter of Nickel and Dimed brought its readers to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Ehrenreich traveled to Minnesota in search of achieving a comfortable medium between her income and her expenses. Due to the fact, that she was unable to achieve this medium in Maine and in Florida. Upon arriving to Minnesota, Ehrenreich applied to various corporate chains (including Wal-Mart, Target, and Kohl’s).

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From the beginning of Nickel and Dimed and Scratch Beginnings, the question posed is the same: “Does the American Dream still exist in the modern America?” And while liberal and conservative commentators will openly contradict each other and argue the viability of making it from almost nothing in this modern age, all that is hearsay. Ehrenreich and Shepard, the authors of Nickel and Dimed and Scratch Beginnings respectively, tried to go beyond what the commentators were doing and prove whether the American dream was still alive by embarking on their own separate case studies. And while, it is imaginable that anyone can rise from rags to as, Shepard stated “[to] slightly better rags,” the how to do this is the item in question. The American

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Mariglen Verjoni Freshman Seminar Professor La’Shannon 3/9/16 The article “Divisions in the One Percent and Class Warfare that Will Shape Election 2014” by Joel Kotkin is about how can people can spread property ownership and how can they improve opportunity in each and every social class in the United States of America. Kotkin was mainly focusing on how each social class has different traditions or beliefs on the elections and because of the inequality in each social class it could affect the 2014 presidential election. Throughout the article Kotkin when on and on about how that there is only “one percent” which is mainly Americas wealthiest individuals, but also it refers to all the wealthiest people in the world and then there is the

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Below is a sample of an annotated source in a bibliography (reference list), compliments of the OWL at Purdue https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/03/): Ehrenreich, B. (2001). Nickel and dimed: On (not) getting by in America. New York: Henry Holt and Company.

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The chapter “Nickel and Dimed” discuss how unskilled workers are living in the modern society of America. They live by hope and want to live properly like others. However, it may be a dream for them because they already know their wages are always very low.

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Most of the 1 percent was born into that life. A handful of people worked really hard

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This bold piece of writing, seems true and I think a lot of people who make lower wages, save less for retirement and have, on average more student loan debt would agree with my notion. In my opinion Inequality in the world has a mostly negative effect on people across the globe. The negatives are that the people affected by it often have trouble affording necessary items like health care and food. A Scotsman by the name of Adam Smith has a quote that truly embodies and complements the problem

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It is proven that it is possible to get from bottom to top I heard in the podcast we had listened to in class “7 ½ % of Americans can get from [rags to riches]... ”(Busted: America's Poverty Myths).

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The solution to this problem is to slightly raise the minimum wage so the lower class will be able to gain wealth. In America the difference of wealth between the top tenth of the one-percent and the other 99% is astounding. People in the lower classes can work for wealth their entire life and barely make a

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But again it's not fair to say the wage gap is not a problem especially with these numbers but with how taxation is heading it should be put more equally instead of pinning it on the rich.” ... There is no sustainable way to make the poor richer by making the rich poorer…”-Richard A.

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The problem with the widened wealth gap is that the inequality may harm the quality. Meaning that those in the higher classes see it as you can use the money with no restrictions. However, economist believe that the “relationship between inequality and economic freedom, with the possibility that policies that are meant to reduce inequality will reduce economic freedom, which will then only make inequality worse.”

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The article says, “While the top 1 percent have seen their incomes rise 18 percent over the past decade, those in the middle have actually seen their incomes fall.” (Stiglitz 2011) While the rich are getting higher incomes prices the poor are getting higher income by taking it from the one in the middle which therefore, makes them get a lower income percentage. America has fallen behind because of not being an equal country to the population by the income equality there is a huge gap between the income being earned by the poor and the rich. The rich are wealthy and the poor depend on the government for everything. As stated in the article, “America lags behind any country in the old, ossified Europe that President George W. Bush used to deride.

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