Why are some people better off than others? (Master Lecture)

The world is cruel. The world made it such that there might be no equality. This is why some people are better off than others. Inequality among races, nations, professions, age, and the list goes on. Inequality between the rich and the poor. Inequality that humans try their best to make equal, but really there is no way to do it. There are always ways to get the upper hand in any situation. Even in organizing a group, there is always the leader who is relatively better off than his or her members. And it is not so that it everyone should be equal anyway. No 2 people are the same and their own personal differences would require different treatments. But doing this in the level of the government would be messy. I mean, how would you give special treatment to millions. So I think it is inevitable to totally give everyone a fair treatment and so the government now adjusts to the majority of the people. So inequality is really an inevitable issue, even in the level of the government.

Finding equality is like satisfying a person, it is impossible. Everyone has a set of wants and needs and all these wants and needs that everyone in the whole world has cannot be satisfied by the limited resources the world offer. The world is not an infinite source of resources as global warming and shortages of resources exhibit. And eventually it will go down to inequality of the rich and poor since the rich can get what they want from the limited resources where as the poor can only manage to survive the day.

If we look at it, this inequality between the rich and poor is increasing. The poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer. The rich have all the opportunities and they would rather not share it to everyone. The rich have access to good education, and good jobs whereas the poor does not even have the slightest idea on where to start. Of course there have had been people who went from poor to rich but really, what are the chances of that happening. And if this ever happens, will these people go back to the poor and help them? I would guess not.

This reminded me of a politician I love to actually hate. This politician claims that he came from hanging on the brink of poverty and eventually became a successful politician that he is now. He claims that he could help the poor if he would sit in the office because he knows how it feels like to be poor. He knows and he knows how to stand up and fight poverty. But then again, if he knew this, why is he not doing anything? Why does he have controversies and issues that relate to corruption. Is this really the way to solve poverty? Maybe this is a statement on why some people are actually better off that other people, it is because people are selfish and would prioritize themselves over others and would lie cheat and steal to do this.

So what is the role of globalization in this inequality? I think globalization can help since through globalization, different parts of the world are connected and this connection would act as a police to those who would dare to abuse power and not help fight the inequality. Other people from different parts of the world can act on fighting inequality in different places. Also, here in the Philippines, through globalization, people who are poor can work abroad and might actually lessen the gap between the poor and the rich.