Increasing wealth gap of immense proportions in the Capitalist World

In Europe we can see that the gap between the rich and poor is increasing and more people from the middle class are become lass wealthy and are feeling the pressure of making it possible to live a normal healthy, comfortable life.

For Europeans income inequality has existed for longer than it has in the U.S. and has been a block at the leg for many. According to some there might be little mobility within the wealth scale, but according to me the governments could help a lot by cutting of the top earnings and by not allowing to much difference between the wages. there should be a difference between the non-educated, the less experienced, the newer worker and those working already a long time for the firm, the management, the CEO, but it can not be acceptable that the CEO earns 300 times more than the lowest worker.

In Europe we luckily have the advancement and lots of people are less bad than in the U.S.A. because we do have our social safety nets. Because of the lacking of social safety nets for citizens in the United States the ones which would have less luck with their health or with work would be worse off and the inequality shall be felt more over there.

US derivatives and US wealth compared to total world wealth 1995-2007 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In Belgium it becomes necessary for the youngsters to work with two, or more to keep the head above water, while the wealth gap increases with immense proportions.

When we only look at the country of so much hope and so called liberty, we do find just four hundred persons in the US having as much in assets and income as the bottom 50% of Americans.

Even the so called communist China cannot escape the wealthgap. Chinese households at the top 5 percent of all income earners took in 23 percent of the total, while the bottom 5 percent earned 0.1 percent, a study of Peking University found.

Wealth in America (Photo credit: uvw916a)

When you move to the impact of global wealth distribution to individuals, according to Global Wealth Equality, the richest 1% on the earth have accumulated some 43% of the world’s wealth, while the bottom 80% of the planet’s inhabitants have just 6% between them.

In several industrialised countries for decades, the nation’s assets have grown more and more concentrated in the hands of a few, while the rest of the nation makes do with the crumbs ad are used as working machines, only there to produce and to bring in money for the company. Corporations receive more gains than the people doing all the hard work. Though the stone bricks or gyproc walls cannot do anything with the wealth, while the labourers need it to pay for their necessary food and well-being.

A few decennia ago lots of material was brought in from the colonies and those people over there where used as the jackpots. The ending of the colonies did not bring more justice. The post-colonial era has actually accelerated economic injustice on a worldwide basis.

The men in charge are forgetting previous inequalities under the population and what it got the nation into, cfr. Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union. It is doubtful if harsh working conditions and instability can instil loyalty or even motivate employees to do their best. And how long shall they be willing to feel squeezed as a lemon? If governments are not careful we shall going to face some tumultuous years in a few years time. We better avoid that we come in a situation where so many people are disgusted by the system that they turn against it.

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Fountain of Wealth (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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