Many believe that the best way to ensure a happier society is to reduce the difference in income earnings between the rich and poor. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
A fierce debate is raging whether mitigating income disparity can lead to a happier society. Some subscribe to this, while others dissent. I will critically analyse this notion and share a plausible conclusion.
To start with, blurring the wealth gap between the elite and the impoverished will allow everyone access to essential amenities: health care, housing, and food, to survive, where some are either ors completely deprived of these services, or they are dependent on others. Moreover, all population sectors will be treated equally and they will also respect each other, resulting in harmony and peace. This will also reduce the crime rate as people get constrained to commit crime due the disproportionate appropriation of money, and lack of basic necessities.
Having said that, those skeptical about this approach assert that erasing such dissimilarity is not the only way to engineer a cheerful social environment. There are other aspects as well to concentrate on: education, mental health, personal freedom, and cultural values, to name a few. Moreover, this approach will cause more disgruntlement among those who are laborious and they are consistent in their efforts, resulting in capital flight from the country. Likewise, there are countries with uneven resource distribution, that have been able to create social bonhomie by focusing on affording access to essential services: health and quality education, to allow the populace to become self-reliant and autonomous, and capable of earning their daily bread and also care for their health.
To capitulate, I do not agree with this notion as alleviating uneven wealth dispersion is not a panacea for ensuring a conducive social environment; such cosseting will produce a generation of complacent individuals while discouraging their hard-working counterparts. Rather, the focus should be on guaranteeing civil liberties and egalitarian access to facilities.
