SOCI 3401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Maximum Wage
10 May 2017
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Chapter 8 summary - escaping the inequality trap. One sociological argument to fix inequality is to develop our science and technology so that we can eventually create an abundance of everything needed to live a full, rewarding human life. Once societies began to reliably generate surplus, people fought over who could grab the most of the surplus. Modern industrial technology has made it possible to provide everyone with food, clothing, shelter, health care, and education, even though the u. s. does not do a good job of providing those to everyone. The problem is with how our capacity is used and with how resources are distributed. We can free the imagination by learning about other cultures and the history of how things today came to be. Most often this happens accidentally, when people encounter surprising facts or ideas that shake up their inherited worldviews.
