Money is everything this day in age. If you want to go do a fun activity with your friends more than likely it is going to cost you. If you want to go see a nature it is going to cost you. Even to get food it costs you, it even costs you to get money. Now a days you need a degree to get a decent job to make money, but college costs lots of money. Even after you’re out of college and starting life you will still be paying on student loans. Now to even get that job, it’s a huge hassle and a struggle, unemployment is at an all time low; however, there is 7 billion people in this world to compete with. You are now competing with people all around the world not just the people in your country, due to outsourcing. Barbara Ehrenreich discusses her …show more content…
They don’t have to worry about somebody in “Chinida” taking their job, because nobody can take away what they are giving away. They are the ones who keep outsourcing and not focusing on losing good workers, or even the effect it is having on the economy. It will always look like a good plan if it keeps putting money into their bank accounts, and gives the company a good image. Ehrenreich has similar thoughts “ I just hope the next time some managers get the idea of cost saving through outsourcing they go for the CEO’s job”(609). Her focus is that outsourcing wouldn’t be such a popular thing if the CEO’s jobs got taken away. They would finally know the struggle of everybody else who has been suffering through outsourcing of their jobs. Zakaria makes a good point when he writes “The next round of rising powers might not be so eager to ‘fit in’ “(616). He is hoping the next round of leaders would stop focusing on what everybody else is doing and quit trying to copy their ways and veer away to a different path. Both authors are saying the leaders of today’s focus is on trying to be just like the rest of world and to do what is best for them individually and not the rest of us. The solution for the both of them is to get rid of some outsourcing not all together, because if that were to happen the Globalizing economy would drop …show more content…
It is helping other people get jobs in other countries rather than here in America. Ehrenreich writes “ Too bad that these reporters can’t get real on-site journalism jobs, at normal American wages, but American are axing good journalist” Instead of using the good resourceful journalist we have here in America we are just giving away the jobs. We are cutting down on the jobs in America, for a cheaper investment with the same education level. Zakaria rebuttals that with “The American economic and social system knows how to respond and adjust to such pressure” His view is we shouldn't worry about it quite yet because America always bounces back. That is exactly what we will
Money is what makes the world go around. From day one, people are assimilated with the idea: to consume, one must spend a medium sufficient enough to receive an object that is desired. Every country has that medium. The Europeans have the Euro, the Japanese have the Yen, Chile has the Peso, and the United States has the Dollar. However, this idea of “getting and spending” has done more harm than good in specific countries. Particularly, in the United States there has been a growing issue of income inequality. The textbook definition of income inequality states: the difference between individuals or populations in the distribution of their assets, wealth, or income. The political problem itself, nevertheless, is deeper and
In the early 1960s Richard Lee did a study that will agues the ideas of the many anthropologists on the !Kung and how they lived as foragers.Many anthropologists thought the hunter gathers lived from hand to mouth. (Placeholder1). The Kung are a group of hunter gathers who live in small groups, share all food they have gathered with equal shares. They grather vegetables within a six mile radius of a watering well they live by. A two to three day supply of dry meat and plants are on hand most of the time. The !Kung do collect food every third to fourth day as an on going process. Vegetable foods are collected by the women and men collect plants and small animals.and hunt large game. The mongongo nut is a large part of their diet about 50 %. In the dry season, and they will walk many miles to gather the nut. Even when large game is not avaible the vegetable foods are, so they do not go hungrey. The Kung are a self-sufficent group. They have strong ethics on sharing and everyone getting an equal porition to eat.
“Despite huge advancements in technology and productivity, millions of Americans are working longer hours for lower wages. The real median income of male workers is $783 less than it was 42 years ago; while the real median income of female workers is over $1,300 less than it was in 2007. That is unacceptable and that has got to change.”
People are still living on $2 a day here in the United States. As one of the wealthiest countries in the world, how is it possible for people to live with this little amount of money? I know that I cannot. In $2.00 a Day, Jennifer Hernandez, a single mother with two kids, is a person who lives on $2 a day as she tries to survive and support herself and her kids in the collapsing economy. The minimum wage job for cleaning houses reinforces the cycle of poverty that Jennifer and her kids live in. This cycle of poverty reveals that there needs to be major changes to the economical infrastructure of the United States since the poor cannot get themselves out of poverty even though they actively look for work or have a job.
The lives of the American society is concentrated on working to live and spend money, under a capitalist system that are
Living or subsistence wage is amount of income needed to maintain basic standard of living. Theoretically, this wage should bring people out of poverty if implemented. The real take home wage for most workers are far below this ‘utopic’ living wage. Absence of living wage for most workers has been recognized as a contributing factor to the difficult task of upward social mobility with resultant diminishing equality of opportunity and relative poverty for most workers in this country today. The concept of working poor is born out of this dystopic social stratification. The threat this and other social determinant factors posed to the realization of the lofty goal of ‘American Dream’ are the subject of this paper.
The United States is one of the wealthiest nations in the world. Despite the high levels of affluence there are still millions of Americans that do not share this wealth. The deprivation of the basic necessities affects the quality of people’s lives. Unemployment comes in several forms and affects millions of people at any given time. People often find themselves out of a job because of the economy. Sometimes people have a job but the job that they are working is no longer thriving like they once was before.
In addition to new freedoms arrives the idea that one can make as much money as he or she desires. If those methods were to include educational scholarships or a job, money is always available. Dana Gioia’s “Money” poem makes the statement, “Money breeds money” (69). In the minds of the America
After being selected as the Last Emperor of China by the ill Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi, Henry Pu yi at his childhood lived a lavish life not knowing of what obligations will face him in growing up. At the age of 6 in the year of 1912, China converts to republic and the Ching Dynasty was forced to abdicate.
Furthermore, the equality of opportunities as one of the foundations of the American dream turned into evident inequality. “The lion’s share of economic growth in American over the past thirty years has gone to a small, wealthy minority, to such an extent that it’s unclear whether the typical family has benefited at all from technological progress and the rising productivity it brings” (Krugman 586). Income inequality has been steadily growing since 2008 when the global financial crisis erupted. Moreover, the gap in prosperity between the group of Americans with high income and all the others had never been such extreme as it is now. Thus, not everyone has the opportunity to become wealthy through hard work. The increase in socioeconomic inequalities,
“The population of unemployed and underemployed explodes. There is a vicious circle here. Because so many seek work, wages are very low. Because one wage cannot support even a small family, more and more family members must seek employment. This move adds to the pool of labor and further depresses wages.” (Syracuse U. Press) Further, if wages begin to rise in one country, other countries seize the opportunity and lower their wages even further. With this cycle of falling wages and more and more people needing jobs, poverty increases drastically. With wages so low, the owners of these large companies get richer and richer—the vast majority of wealth in a country becomes concentrated in one small group of people. While this is good for those few, the vast majority of citizens are shorthanded. Capitalism is an excellent system for the elite and for increasing efficiency, but as far as providing for the needs of all of its citizens, it falls short. Thus, capitalism is a system that causes and perpetuates poverty, and exploits its lower class.
A considerable amount of the jobs that are available today that do not require a college education have a low hourly wage. When Americans are working for less than ten dollars an hour it makes it difficult for a family to make the rent or mortgage payment. Not only do they have a mortgage or rent payment, they must buy groceries, pay power bills, and make sure they have the necessities that everyone needs daily.
In the U.S., the primary source of income comes from jobs. However, people are unable to find jobs because businesses are outsourcing unskilled labor to developing countries since workers there are willing to be paid less than the average American worker. This creates problems for people who are trying to look for jobs because many lack the skills to function in a job that requires skill and will remain jobless until they find unskilled labor jobs. Since the Recession, working class families who had lost their jobs are struggling to survive due to the little job availability (Heritage Foundation, 2011). Because the majority of working class families are suffering from prolonged
Ever person on earth dreams of getting that one good job that can keep them happy and that pays well so that they can take care of their family and other generations to come. However, not everyone has this type of luxury. A good portion of the population in our society are forced to serve as a pillar for the country and are not being rewarded for all their hard work and effort which leads to Income Inequality. A paycheck is the only difference between being homeless and having a home for most people and its not because they waste money carelessly, but because the time they put in
Every American dreams of finding a job that pays well enough so that they may comfortably take care of their loved ones and themselves for years to come. Most Americans hope to find some way to make a living that they enjoy, something that they view as productive. Unfortunately, many do not have this luxury. In our society, a good portion of the population is forced to hold the base of our country in place while hardly being redeemed for their time and effort, and thus the problem of income inequality. Numbers of these people live from paycheck to paycheck, barely getting by, not because they manage their money poorly, but because the value of their time at work is negligible.