By the way, I actually don’t really like this way of taking the theories of other economics/philosophers as common sense and imposing my own theories on others.
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After watching “Requiem for the American Dreams”, I was very shocked by Noam Chomsky's statement that the inequality of the society comes from the extreme rich, who are only 1% of the population in America. In his theory, the concentration of wealth yields concentration of power, and those small number of wealthier people would merely protect the minority of themselves. However, the America has always proclaimed and promoted that it strives to establish a democracy and equality society. Now people would ask: “If can democracy really lead to equality to all people in the world? And why was majority of social wealth held in a very few so-called elite class?
In my opinion, unequal-social-wealth distribution is not a good thing for either the society or the people. Democracy will not automatically bring about reasonable social allocation. The group of middle-class people, just like us, actually only demand for a well-being life. All they need is to have their lives to be safer and sufficient. They do not have that much desire to participate political affairs. However, people should turn their attention more to the intentions of the politicians, as well as the social responsibilities and moralities of the rich entrepreneurs.
Exploitation and profit-oriented drive separate each group of people who possess different social wealth, and that causes the formation of the different social classes in the society and generates the inequality; however, at the present stage, we have no any other choices. The people who have more assets and more capital are able to make more money in an exponent degree. In the future, it is better to somewhat limit the increasing rate of wealth in the rich or drastically change the tax rates for different groups in lieu of their incomes. As long as we keep this policy for long, the real equality and democracy society will eventually come true.
The film gives us 10 principles of how the American society developed in the past years; however, it also leaves us a question: what should we do to realize the equality within a democratic society? How and what should we do? We should probably take some time and think about the big question coming from the movie.
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