Wealth Gap
I appreciate the things which I have now.
Nowadays, this society runs under a high frequency; if you
are failed in the first step, you will hardly catch up, and then you might fail
again and again. This issue caused many social matters, and Wealth Gap might be
the one of those. Wealth Gap refers to the gap between rich and poor, income
inequality, or wealth disparity. It is really a matter we seriously need to
think about. Why there is a huge difference in wealth between rich and poor,
especially in China?
The situation in China is especially terrible; because of
its rapid economic progress and more competitive social system, the
rich people who have already had powerful influences to China’s economy is
becoming more and more wealthy due to their previous wealth; and the poor
people only remain few chances to become rich or find a well-paid job. Everyone
knows that China has a very high density of population; it makes the people
from the middle class and the lower class harder to find an honorable job with
a high salary. Thus the wealth gap emerges in society. Another reason that
causes Wealth Gap is the relationship between the powerful companies and the government. Those
powerful companies have really dramatic influences for China’s economy, so the government
provides few “privileges” for supporting them so that the national economy will
develop too. Then the rich people become richer.
China has a really huge change in recent year; the cities
and the coastal area have been transformed into new looks, but how about the
countryside and the poor people? In some ways, they stay the same as it always
was. An interview from BBC News: a farmer who is from Guizhou Province says:
“The agriculture tax is high. Government officials say they are going to reduce
the rural taxes, but they have not and we do not know when they will. If they
did reduce our taxes that would really change our lives. We are so poor because
there is no development here. The government does give aid but for some reason
there is hardly any allocated to this area. I have no way to buy fertilizer. We
need economic help.” This statement is really impressive; although some
countryside areas do have changes, but to compare with cities, it seems like
nothing.
Some poor people are just complaining about the unfair
treatment, but some extreme people choose another way to make the government
pay attention to them; a terrorism attack. On July 20, 2013, my mum and I drove
my brother to the airport terminal three; they were going to American for
playing tennis. After we said goodbye to my brothers and on the way we baked to
home, we heard of the news about the terrorism attack in the terminal three
from the radio. My mum was scared; she said if my brothers’ flight were next
flight, they would be very dangerous. Basically, the terrorist was not trying
to hurt people; he was trying to get attention from the government. He was a
man in a wheelchair, and held a homemade bomb in the main arrivals hall at
Beijing International Airport (Airport terminal three). Before the explosion,
he told the surrounding people to get away from him, because he did not want to
hurt anybody. Then he triggered the homemade bomb, and only he was injured.
After the attack, the newspaper claimed the man was from Shandong Province, and
he was a petitioner who had individual social grievances. He had traveled for
his issue more than ten times, but every time he came back to home without a
solution. People guess that his individual grievances might come from his job,
and salary; he might not get what he supposes to get. Thus he planed that
terrorism attack.
In my perspective, wealth gap is a current social puzzle,
and ordinary people can not help with this issue at all. Hope the government
can find a compromise for this issue as soon as possible; be beneficial for
both sides.
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