Income Distribution: A Solution to Social Inequality?

IS THE ELIMINATION OF INEQUALITY IN SOCIETY ACHIEVABLE THROUGH THE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME AND WEALTH?
Life they say has its own twist and turns. I was born in the suburbs in Kumasi. Fortunately, I had the opportunity to go to the best of schools since I was a child. Also, I have unfortunately had to experience what it means to be poor and not have everything at my beck and call. I have experienced rich and poor and I prefer rich if you ask me. Distribution of income and wealth is the way and manner in which wealth and income is distributed within a state (Encyclopaedia Brittanica, n.d.). The touchy subject of inequality however is a broad topic in the society today. People are unfair to each other because of difference in standard of living.

In the first principle john Rawls proposes that the government should make sure that the every citizen or individual enjoys equal opportunities in every aspect of life, such as freedom of speech, freedom to vote and other essential rights and liberties (Lamont & Favor, 2014). The second principle has two parts. The first part states that if there is going to be any form of inequality it should be to the benefit of the less privileged or the disadvantaged in the society. The second part suggests that the government set up certain constitutional institutions to ensure that people enjoy this liberties accordingly. The difference principle which is the second principle means that the state may give other individuals more power and influence than other individuals provided certain conditions are met such as promoting people in official positions without any form of partiality. This implies that raising the standard of living of the advantaged in the society will automatically result in raising the standard of living of the poor in the society (Garrett, 2002). Robert Nozick is one well known thinker who has criticised Rawls’ difference principle, he contends that Rawls overlooks the difference in individuals when he said natural talents of privileged or advantaged individuals should

There is inequality in terms of gender, race and skin colour. There are different forms of inequality and they are social and economic inequality. Social inequality is basically the unequal opportunities individual have in a society for different social backgrounds and position in the society (Morffitt, 2015). Economic inequality is the point in which income is unequally distributed among people (C.Sutter, 2013).To eliminate inequality in terms of monetary aspects is something I don’t believe in. My reasons are as follows. There are wealthy people who were not born with silver spoons in their mouths, they had to toil day and night to gain outstanding wealth. Also there are some poor people who can work as hard as other people did to get to where they are now but due to laziness and procrastination and bad choices in life, they don’t work hard as they are supposed to. They lazy around expecting riches to fall like manner from the sky. This will however not be fair to the wealthy people who had to work tirelessly to get to where they are now. Think of it, even if some of these group of people get a reasonable amount of money through the distribution they will spend it recklessly trying to fit into something they are not. It has however been recorded that poor people spend more than rich people. Reason being that, they buy things they do not need. In real life, they have been situations where you see people