on, women and African-Americans make less money than white males for working the same jobs. Income should certainly not vary with gender or race. As mentioned in an article of LBO on income and poverty, women make 74% of what men make for doing the same job. For blacks the gap is even larger, they made only 63% percent of whites during the same time period as the women as mentioned in the same article*. These discriminatory practices are pure evidence of income inequality.Another section of the negative effect of income inequality is social segregation of class. People are described as “bad poor” because of their financial position and their failure to overcome it. However, that is easier said than done. Children who are born into poverty are already poor and they have no control over that. They have to work very hard with little assistance just to get to the point where a change can be made or an upgrade in class is possible. People of low class are generally regarded as less valuable or even disposable. They are the subject of much ridicule and prosecution due to their financial status. This sort of classification is attempted to be stabilized by welfare and other government money programs, but the taxpayers fund that, so the money is taken back away from them. Income inequality is one of the main causes of social segregation of class.How then do we find the value of work in our society? One-way, the way that is most prominent in the working world today is salaries are higher where more money is made. That is, people will make more money at Warner Brothers than at a Dairy Queen simply because of the contrast in revenue between the two firms. To say a person flipping burgers should make the same or even similar amount of money, as a corporate officer of a large firm would be incorrect according to our society’s standards. When it all comes down to it, demand or labor force is where the money is. Most pe...
