INEQUALITY FOR ALL

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If I had to describe a moment from INEQUALITY FOR ALL that is really sticking with you – maybe you found it particularly inspiring or particularly troubling it would be the statement made by Robert Reich, “Of all developed nations the U.S. has the most unequal distribution of income.” What was it about that moment that is so memorable? He also states, “the richest 400 people in America have more wealth then the bottom 50 million of us put together.” Imagine going home and telling a friend about this film. How would you complete this sentence: Until I watched this film I never knew.....I actually went home and told my mother about how minimum wage has not increased a whole lot since the 1970’s but the rich people got even more rich since the 1970’s and that women had to enter workforce to help compensate their husband’s losses. What parts of the film were surprising or made you sit back and say, “Hmmm, I need to think more about that? Or, “Wow, I never thought about that.” The part would be when he was talking about “shared equality” up until the 1970’s was a normal thing and how everybody’s income doubled in size as well. Globalization and technology have not reduced the number of jobs available to Americans, but have only reduced their pay. Based on the film the minimum wage in America should be set so that the average worker makes the same amount of income that the people in Wall Street should be making. If you could spend a day with one person in the film, who would you choose? What would you want to talk about with them? I would choose to speak with former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich who knows first-hand the history of the problems that this country faces concerning inequality in the workforce concerning wages. I woul... ... middle of paper ... ...e the rich have increased. The fact that wages have dropped dramatically for the working class says that the rich are more important than the middle working class. Our economy does not serve the purpose that it was designed to do which is to provide decent wages to the hard workers and keep prices lower than the wages. I believe that Americans are kept in the dark about the income inequality so that the rich can keep getting richer while the working class remains at the bottom struggling to make ends meet at every paycheck. The argument that I would make concerning utilitarianism that presented in this film is if wages for the rich keep rising it should also be applied the working class as well otherwise it is double standard which implies that the working class should not be allowed to get better wages and get a hard in life in rather than staying at the bottom.

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