Saturday, July 17, 2010

Widening gap income disparity cause social instability

What correlation can we draw from two news reports and the underlying assumptions or causative factors and the implied consequences?



When there is a wide gap in income distribution with wealth concentrated at the hands of a few and the majority facing high unemployment,income unable to support the basic needs of food,healthcare and education,the use of power to repress dissatisfaction and the use of legal means to silence critics?


That sounds increasingly familiar,doesn't it? In China,Beijing to stem the increase in crimes caused by the impoverisehed migrant "floating"labourers, their slums and ghetto homes are barricaded ,their entrance and exit monitored like customs checkpoints with curfew hours imposed,their land taken away without adequate compensation for" development" purposes like property development and so on.

Is that solving the root cause of the social problem? Why not provide employment so the young can remain in the rural areas,why not develop better facilities for the rural workers so that they need not migrate to urban areas or get sold by people traffickers to other countries?

In France,the rough suburbs are facing increasing civil unrest.There is a growing population of immigrants and industrial workers living in near ghettos where unemployment is high,public services are poor and resentment boils.Police and government officials fear that the poor suburbs could explode again because the underlying causes -high unemployment,few opportunities,drug trafficking and a sense of exclusion from society have changed little.


So what do the above two countries have as a model of economic development.
"Workers of the world unite,you have nothing to lose but your chains." Has the economic ideology of the communist/capitalist system done much to improve the quality of life of the industrial workers and the peasants?Has the French Revolution and the Communist Revolution able to give an equitable distribution of resources to all/ Has the so called class struggle changed anything from the aristocrats to the business magnates,the multi billion tycoons?

If technology causes loss of traditional jobs,what can we do to generate employment?

Friday, July 16, 2010

Shiiit

It makes one wonder why a burglar would break into my house at night,rob me of my personal belongings and then deposit a foul stinky piece of his personal droppings in my toilet.SHHHHit happens ,I guess. Why leave behind your shit for others to clean?