SOC 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Economic Inequality, Proletariat, Human Capital
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The uses of global poverty: how economic inequality benefits the west daina stukuls eglitis. Most inhabitants of the global village recognize that wealth and the accompanying opportunities for education, health care, and consumption are not evenly divided and that a substantial gap exists between the more and less materially blessed populations (229) Political rhetoric has consistently elevated the goal of spreading the prosperity enjoyed by the advanced industrial states of the west around the globe. If shared global prosperity was the goal, it seems safe to say that while there was some modest progress made in areas like latin america, eastern europe, and parts of asia, We did not succeed, because the global wealth gap is still massive and growing (230: the rich countries remain rich, and the poor countries, for the most part, remain trapped in desperate, dire poverty.
