RE: More Perspectives on Progress
Actually growing relative income disparity is the sign of corruption in the goverment,increasing of the political corruptions in the poor countries...
i agree with you about "risk-taking is unquestionably the engine of progress." taking-risk is indepented from the regime. Because how the corruption is corruption whatever the regime it is also the same with the taking -risk situation. No differences...They both have cons and pros of course...
" Progress must be measured by improvements in the lives of the masses and not by the extend of the disparity between the richest and poorest." i think this idea is totally wrong because of the it is not equal for the poor and rich.Ok they both don't earn the same money,ok they live different houses or have got different cars but basic needs ( for example education, health , justice ) are different then there is a big problem . What is normal if a child would go to a bad school just because of his father's income is low then i just ask where is the justice in education?
Thank you for sharing and have a nice day my friend...
This is the modern view of why it occurs, but I think income disparity will always exists. Its a matter of whos on which side, and how much of society is caught on either side. Without a doubt capitalism has boosted everyone to a higher standard, but also made the gap significantly wider. But I think its moved more people from the lowest bracket up.
People on one side will often say that education is not a right, therefore justice is not necessary. You are born into a situation and society does not have a job to give you better education, just equal. If you happen to live in a lower income neighborhood and your school is bad, then that's your parents fault for not having done more to put you in a better situation.
It sounds cruel, but then lets look at the schools. Are they bad because the community of students are bad? Is it the local community attitude towards school? Or is it because we are failing our teachers? Is funding really THE issue? Or is it how we are teaching our kids from the home to the school itself?
Firstly if we are modern people we need to agree that we all must be equal ,at least equal
for health , education and justice in this world.As you you know when a person is born ,it has some rights in a social goverment and equal education for everone is one of the duty in the social goverment or country. So actually yes pre-education is responsibility of parents before the school. So i am against to the private schools and education with money.Because this situation influences the justice between the rich and poor children in the begining of the life. Because when someone is born he/she cannot choose his/her family which is rich or poor. So i believe every one must have a good and equal education.Of course
"If you happen to live in a lower income neighborhood and your school is bad, then that's your parents fault for not having done more to put you in a better situation."
Firstly bad neighborhood reason is the poor goverment and poor goverments feeds the people's ignorance . Think the country a body and you want to make this body stronger. If you make legs , your legs will get stronger if you make chest your chest. But these progresses are wrong you need to get your body entirely stronger and also your mind. If you can do then you will be stronger. So the education is one of the constituents that creates the body. Of course that is my idea.
have a nice day my friend...
I don't think that we have a basic human right to education BUT! Under a modern social system, I would agree that there should be a basic level of education that society provides. I would also add that the quality of that education is not required to be the best, but rather it should serve to provide the basic education necessary to become a higher member of society.
That being said, I support private schools for those who can afford them and I expect them to do things far greater than what public schools can afford.
I don't think most people would argue against that, they would only argue around the definition of what "basic education" means.
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I don't think the full reason to why bad neighborhoods exist can be captured in 1 sentence like that. Its not just poor governance, its also a lack of community, and the creation of a community is solely up to the community members.
Its my belief that capitalism pushes capital away from those areas because there is no economic advantage to being there. By that same account, people are responsible for their own success if they are all given the same baseline tools (basic education). The complexity is that there is also social unjustice keeping the poor down. Thats the difficult part.