Why Do We Let The Wealthy Be In Charge
Since the beginning of civilization, the same question has always been asked. Who gets to be in charge? Do we let the wealthy be in charge? What would that mean for everybody else? Personally, I believe that it would not be beneficial that we let the wealthy have the majority of the power. Since the wealthy are in charge, we have an unfair education system, less jobs, and an increase in poverty.
Our primary education system is set up to where if your parents have money and you live in a decent zip code, you can be successful and go on to a higher level of learning. However, there is also a thing called the school to prison pipeline. This is basically saying that students from disadvantaged backgrounds will choose a life in prison versus the …show more content…
While these jobs are okay for a nineteen year old, when that nineteen year old becomes older, they are less appealing for those types of jobs. They lose their job to a high school student and now they are left jobless. And you can only qualify for a handful of jobs with only a high school diploma. Studies show that the average income for a person with only a high school degree is $30,500. Those people without jobs are left to work in risky businesses such as drug dealing. Now what does this have to do with the wealthy? Well in recent studies, private companies make money off of those who partake in illegal drugs. Let’s take heroin for example. When you do heroin , you have an increased chance of dying from an overdose or coming extremely close. When you dodge death, you take a trip to a doctor. He prescribes you to a pill that in some ways, is more dangerous than heroin.
Finally, with uneducated people out in the streets, buying and doing illegal drugs, the wealthy can only find themselves doing one thing. “Charity work.” And by charity work, I mean they go out into the ghettos, pose with a couple of malnourished children and then other guilty rich people donate to this “cause” that they were very well responsible in creating. They then use that money and say that it goes towards helping the cause when they really use that money to create more
Our primary education system is set up to where if your parents have money and you live in a decent zip code, you can be successful and go on to a higher level of learning. However, there is also a thing called the school to prison pipeline. This is basically saying that students from disadvantaged backgrounds will choose a life in prison versus the …show more content…
While these jobs are okay for a nineteen year old, when that nineteen year old becomes older, they are less appealing for those types of jobs. They lose their job to a high school student and now they are left jobless. And you can only qualify for a handful of jobs with only a high school diploma. Studies show that the average income for a person with only a high school degree is $30,500. Those people without jobs are left to work in risky businesses such as drug dealing. Now what does this have to do with the wealthy? Well in recent studies, private companies make money off of those who partake in illegal drugs. Let’s take heroin for example. When you do heroin , you have an increased chance of dying from an overdose or coming extremely close. When you dodge death, you take a trip to a doctor. He prescribes you to a pill that in some ways, is more dangerous than heroin.
Finally, with uneducated people out in the streets, buying and doing illegal drugs, the wealthy can only find themselves doing one thing. “Charity work.” And by charity work, I mean they go out into the ghettos, pose with a couple of malnourished children and then other guilty rich people donate to this “cause” that they were very well responsible in creating. They then use that money and say that it goes towards helping the cause when they really use that money to create more