Poverty Of Equality Essay

The poverty of equality by Stephen Moore and Peter Ferrara shares a perspective of poverty in a modern view. Moore’s and Ferrara article says, equality is something that cannot be achieved knowing that every person attains their own unique talents and skills. Equality can’t be accomplished in a world where everybody is different. All people have strengths and weaknesses, so becoming equal in every aspect or providing equal results all the time is nearly impossible. Think about it, how could millions of different people with different strengths, intelligences, and creativity’s come out with the same results? It can’t. For example, someone who is a talented musician may not have the eligible skills of being a doctor. considering that the musicians

Some may be better in certain aspects than others. Moore and Ferrara support their idea with the short story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut. In this short story, Vonnegut shows a futuristic society where equality is achieved through the extremes. The writing tells a story of a world that suppresses people to make them all equal in every which way, rather than people working hard to keep their earnings. In the story people’s talents are suppressed so that the ones who do not have unique abilities would be “equal” to the hard workers and talented ones, which Moore and Ferrara do not find justifiable. For instance, during the story George (the father of Harrison) was forced to wear a mental handicap in his ear that the government provided by law. In the short story the author says “Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains”. This gives an example of the extremes that equality can be taken to and does not seem productive to suppress people from their talents and hard work for the sake of

I agree with Moore’s and Ferrara’s article not all economies are wealthy and doesn’t justify equality, fairness and, opportunity in all countries. Joe Goodwin parker describes poverty in a completely different sense. Parker describes in detail the harsh reality of living inhumanly. Parker refers to poverty in horrible ways including” poverty is an acid that drips on pride until all pride is worn away.” And “poverty is getting up every morning from a dirt-and illness-stained mattress”. I assume parker was referring to people living in less fortunate countries, more than likely outside of the United States. She tells the side of poverty that most Americans don’t see. According to Joe Goodwin Parkers article poverty is not fair and opportunities are limited which makes seem that all odds are against you. She says the governments won’t help, there are no jobs, and not enough resources. If government economics would change giving all people their necessities, then opportunities for growth will be promoted not suppressed. In a poorer countries there is not enough recourses to go around and the opportunity for wealth is not given to everybody which seems unfair. Parker elaborates on the conditions they live though with immense detail leaving me in near disgust. In Parkers article, she shows a different perspective of what equality means. People in countries that suffer from economical poverty need the basic necessities of living to be able to work. If the economy does not provide