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Summary Of Bellamy's Looking Backward

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Solving world hunger by implementing Bellamy’s equal pay in “Looking Backward”. Hunger is a problem that has been going on all over the world forever. Food shortages due to crops dying all the way to poverty causing the incapability to afford food, hunger is still a real serious problem in society. Unfortunately, the U.S is not exempt from the issue of hunger. There are many people of all ages who are starving in the U.S every day. Although there are programs available to help the issue of hunger, it hardly provides enough for the people who need help sometimes in most places where they give out food its always the people who need it the most first it should be like that don’t get me wrong but I feel like the people who don’t need help the most in the beginning get pushed to the side then they become people who need it the most and it just turns into a never ending circle. Bellamy created a society where everyone could buy food, even those who couldn’t work. Applying Bellamy’s way of having equal pay for all would stop the issue of hunger due to lack of income. …show more content…

This system gives each working person about 60,000 dollars a year. That is more than enough to provide for a family in Bellamy’s society. In the U.S there is a large income gap happening between the upper, middle and lower classes. As you know, the gap between the upper class and households that make the median income in the U.S is always increasing. That means a lot of the money is being distributed to the upper class, while the middle and lower classes are left with significantly less money. This causes the issue of starvation in most lower class, and even some middle class, homes in the U.S. Closing this large money gap in the American economy through adopting Bellamy’s way of earning income is a step in the right direction for ending hunger in the

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