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Originally posted by SummerChild
In my opinion, technically there are three ways to close *any* gap, move one side down, move one side up or move both sides toward one another.
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Summerchild, I like a lot of what you had to say. When I said anyone up for a revolution, I was partially being facetious but I was also partially serious.
One of the ways that we can move towards each other is to stop thinking that a person's value lies in their accumulated wealth. In a capitalist society, you are what you own; but the value of people is so much more than that.
However, in a very real way more money means more access to a lot of things including education. I think that part of what we would have to do is work towards a more equal distribution of resources so that people whose don't have much personally still have access to the things that the very well off have.
For example, it terms of public school funding: each school receives a certain amount of funding per child from the federal government and that money is supplement by funding from property taxes. Of course, the schools in the more wealthy neighborhoods are more well-equipped. And, while I am a believer in education being what you make it, seeing that other children's education seems to be valued so much more than your own can be demoralizing. (This is in my home state, I don't know if this is the case everywhere else.)
So, to sum up: MORE EQUAL DISTRIBUTION OF RESOURCES, especially within the public service sector.