Get Rich Or Die Tryin' - Inequality, Education And The American Dream

the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer in America, and elsewhere.

This reality is popular in the news these days, as the cause of most interest, and also opens to manipulate all sorts of political spinmasters, which in turn creates more news. Left taste of each view of the middle class struggles during the economic expansion, which are touted as the golden nuggets of proof finally judged by the free market as inherently bad for workers. Europeans lead this choir, which had already stunned America's assumptions of free market social values.

However, the data are welcomed on the right side, also, to the extent that it "proves " detrimental economic impact of immigration. Wealthy business owners hire illegals, cutting costs and getting richer, so the argument goes, while poor white Americans without jobs.

Regardless of ideology, the fact remains that despite low unemployment and high growth, the prosperity of the current economic boom is bypassing the noticeably-nots. It is too rarely noted, however, that there are legitimate and positive reasons for it that neither side in the current debate is mentioned.

1 Poverty Problem: Some Americans are on the losing end of progress

the core causes of widening inequality, observed correctly both the left and right sides, are technology, globalization and immigration. However, they are both wrong about the lasting impact on all three.

Technology displaces workers who do jobs that can be replicated by machines, computers and robots. Not surprisingly, those whose jobs can be performed machines, computers and robots are neither the richest nor the most educated. Thus, the impact of technology makes by worse-off, and even helps a lot more (see point 2).

Globalization transfers where they can be performed for cheaper than in the United States. These jobs, unlike those who are affected by technology, tend to be white collar, middle-class jobs. Countering this regard, however, the savings from outsourcing positions are passed on to consumers in the form of lower prices or invest in future production.

The immigrants work for less and compete for the jobs of natives. As technology, they tend to threaten the poorest and least educated native workers. However, there are several well-documented benefits of effective immigration. U.S. Latinos, for one, three times more likely to start their own businesses than the national average, encouraging economic growth. Anecdotal stories abound of immigrants, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, who rose from poverty to incredible success through the same economic system, now derided as anti-poor.

These three factors increase the competition for jobs. These are unique challenges. For those that threatened these factors could win the competition, see 3

2 The rich win at the end, for better or for worse

The rich are getting richer, because they, unlike successfully harness and exploit the advantages and opportunities inherent in technology, globalization and immigration.

They use technology, as it was intended, for greater productivity. Advances in telecommunications, for example, allows a business to be conducted with more flexibility and efficiency. Those who can translate this potential into the value of the company were duly rewarded.

They have successfully used globalization to effectively offer their resources and services to worldwide audience. It is profitable, not only because of globalization successfully create value-added efficiencies and cost savings for the organization, but also because of the global market exponentially multiplies the size of the market for your product or service.

That does not mean that all the rich features of this show. As always this will be the case, America's elite is full of lazy, incompetent snobs. This is inevitable - but it is worth mentioning two facts. First, the point of this article is to show that the present polarization of wealth (ie why in recent times only the rich are much seen their wealth increase) would result in those who are diligent and successful. Trust fund babies blow their money on Ferraris - they do not grow richer by market capitalization and entrepreneurship. Second, modern, globally competitive market has made idle rich with fewer species. In America in 1916, only about 20% of the richest 1% of their wealth through paid work. Today, it is more than 60%.

So we see these objects of modern progress and threaten to move the poor and middle class and learn and apply by the rich. Is this a good thing? Well, it does not matter much, because it turns out ...

3 Way Out: How to quality education can reduce inequality, anyway

existence of inequality of wealth should not be cause for alarm, despite the frantic noise by John Edwards, Nancy Pelosi, and other socialists hyperventilating. Successful companies can develop three pain relief.

The first is the sustained economic growth, through tax revenues and public spending, profits for the rich and poor, regardless of income. John F. Kennedy said it well with his famous analogy, "rising tide lifts all boats." U.S. economic growth, at this point, it is still the envy of the Western world.

The second is the social welfare system that protects from all miseries. There are several excellent proposals for the provision of unemployment without unnecessarily discouraging work, including the TI-a negative income tax, and targeted subsidies in use in Latin America.

The third is a constant opportunity for all Americans free to climb the social ladder through hard work. It's called the American dream in our patriotic folk, to the maintenance of unlimited possibilities for those who seek it.

Romantic ideals aside, it is here where the stumbling block has been found. Socialists distrust the market's ability to provide meaningful opportunity for this upward mobility, instead of fantasizing that companies generally conspire to enslave and destroy the American worker. Conservatives, opposed them, tend to oversimplify the issue, assuming that the American system is always a perfect fluid, even in the face of contradictory evidence.

Unquestionably, the biggest obstacle for the current American Dream is also his incubator: education. America's K-12 education system is in miserable shape, inexcusably behind nearly every other wealthy nation in the world in all measures of success.

Nevertheless, the quality of American education has always, in many ways, the golden ticket to success: it is the greatest opportunity for advancement available to every American. Despite several shortcomings, the degree and still unrivaled tool for the guarantee of future earnings. Those who deal with the CPA, JD, MBA, or a medical degree, among many others from a prestigious university, almost all quickly placed in a six-position immediately after graduation, providing yourself into a lucrative career and a spacious lifestyle.

Any argument is clothed in populist or otherwise, the best and only way to compete against competition from technology, globalization, immigration, or education. American worker has the best system in the world to learn how to do something a computer, Indian, Mexican or not. Unemployment among college graduates in the U.S. in the dwarf 2%, simply because neither Jose nor machine can replace the MBA.

Education, as the best way forward, it becomes a necessity for workers facing new competition. These workers face strong economic incentives (Socialists call to be "forced system") to get educated and become more competitive, more productive worker. If they do, they risk losing their jobs to machines and / or aliens. Despite their complaints, more educated workforce and the company sounds like a good idea. And it would certainly reverse the current inequality of wealth - it would enable the poor and middle class to join the rich in their upward mobility.

4 American education is the solution, but it has its problems. Bon help

America's universities are the gold standard of educational institutions. They dominate the world academic community in all measures of quality. Institute for Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranks the world's universities on a number of objective criteria such as number of Nobel Prize winners and articles in prestigious journals. Seventeen of the 20 best universities in that list are American, as are 35 of the first 50th American universities employ 70% of the world's living Nobel Prize winners, produce about 30% of world production of articles about science and engineering and 44% most frequently cited articles.

But it's not just the elite that benefit. Community college system unrivaled in the world offer all adults the opportunity to transfer to more prestigious institutions, or to achieve a lesser degree. Many countries give high achieving and underrepresented students, almost without schooling, guaranteed. staggering plethora of institutions gives each student the opportunity to find the elusive "perfect " school.

Why are American universities so good? The answer is because they are free to compete.

Management is not the state, as in many European countries. Independent private universities receive funding from various sources, expanding the landscape impact of the ballooning number of institutions available. Individual schools may pursue certain objectives, goals, and methods without the approval of top-heavy state.

University is also competing for resources, most importantly, teachers and students. Their existence depends on their ability to offer something of value over their fellow academies. They are also free to accept or reject students, enabling them to improve the quality and value of their teaching and scholarship.

European universities, not surprisingly, often reminiscent of American K-12 institutions in their operations and their results are similarly dismal. They were nationalized, egalitarian, and inefficient. America, for obvious reasons, the large margins of first choice destination for foreign students. It is a competition, stupid.

What is most important to their success, American universities are supported with private funds. Since tuition fees and voluntary donations from the former, they certainly their budgets by providing valuable services, and not effective lobbying. As a result, their commitment to quality unsurpassed. They serve as yet another shining example of the wisdom of privatization and deregulation. By the terrible contrast, America's K-12 institutions are free at the point of consumption, publicly funded, nationalized, and homogenized.

Unfortunately, there are still many career lacking educational support structure. College athletes, for example, are often well served by economic leaving school before graduation. An unusual career, like those rappers, no mainstream educational institution. Will the market adjust? It may, but only certainty is that the state will not.

The best way to develop a K-12 education, competitive, innovative and successful model of higher education through school vouchers. Such a system would ensure that all children have the opportunity to attend quality schools and that schools themselves will be of high quality. This would allow every parent the ultimate control to determine the ideal educational institution for your child, and it will encourage independent, competitive behavior, which is kept in this country at the top global universities list. Most importantly, it would force institutions to compete for students, the core element of world-class quality of American universities.

Private K-12 schools, many of whom are already showing success of effective university, will surely flourish under coupons, attracting students and expand its market to offer a different example of the quality of private universities.

However, all would not be lost on America's public school system under vouchers, despite the whining protestations of public school teachers' unions. Competition among schools is fierce, but state schools are often among the highest performers. It is only from a lack of faith in their ability to attract students to public schools to be afraid of vouchers. They can successfully compete with private schools. To have a chance, however, control over all aspects of education shall immediately be transferred from Washington to the principal, teachers and parents in individual schools.

We see that the unique challenges of the 21st century world, technology, globalization and immigration, have an unequal impact on rich and poor. However, rather than to punish the wealthy, America should be concerned to help the poor to respond to these challenges and become rich yourself. To do so would require education. However, to ensure education for the task, competition and free choice to win the bureaucracy and regulation.