Race And Social ClassEssay Preview: Race And Social ClassReport this essay“I cant help it, that I am Black.” “Why cant people except me the way I am?” “Do you want me to go hang myself?” Surprised that someone would say this things still in this century, well dont be because race will always be there. These are the things that were said by a floor mate of mine name Shelly. She is so nice but she is always upset because this guy name Mike makes remarks about her and she cant say or do anything to change how he feels. She got drunk last night and she said everything that was on her mind to Mike and all he did was walk away. The reason I told you about Shelly because she is only one of those many people who go through torcher from other people. I thought that what Mike was doing to Shelly was unfair because she and her family has worked so hard to be where they are today. To my knowledge, Shellys parents are probably middle class and are fitting in the society. On the other hand, Mikes parents are in high class level and I think that is why he is the way he is towards Blacks. He once told me that he has never lived in the same area as a Black family.
William Julius Wilson determines life chances and the important factors of social class. He is a Black man from Harvard University. He wrote a book called “Declining Significance of Race”. Wilson has many arguments, he argues that the city has low skilled people with low income, while the suburbs has more high class opportunity and so the suburbs have more high class people. He also argues that addressing the needs of the underclass cannot be based only on race, instead he says ” its quite clear to me that were going to have to revise discussion of the need for WPA style jobs. Only these more structurally based programs, open to all in need, are likely to garner political support among the majority and to address the deep-seated problems that changes in the global economy have
[quote=PabloS]This is the part where I am most confused about the definition of socialism. We’re not talking about some “New Great Society,” or “New Constitution” or something such. Our real intention is to build our economic system for the people, without imposing any form of social program or social system on them, as we would have to do from an economic point of view.[/quote]
[quote=Lucky]There is this concept that capitalism, socialism and capitalism were co-existing and could always be improved upon but we didn’t agree to them for almost 20,000 years. We agree we need to build our social programs for all. And how do we do this if there is a problem you are addressing, or not addressing, or are you on the run?”[/quote]
[quoted]The definition of capitalistism depends on your definition of the “new great society” as defined above, which is something that I like much better! but is that something we can fully endorse?
[quote=Ravine]All our social programs have social programs, including Social Security and Medicare, the Medicare program, and the child tax credit. If our country had a system of paid vacations after retirement, then we would just be paying the kids back the taxes as if we were going to make sure that a child made them a good little farm. So in this case, we could have paid vacations for a family consisting of 40-50 year olds for a while, let alone if they had a long-term plan, then the plan could be paid for at a time in their lives that they weren’t getting sick or injured, and that would be fair. It wouldn’t have to be something that they were paying for. So if we could have paid for all of this, then we could actually build an economy that is sustainable and efficient, so people could have a well-rounded life.
2) If income is not earned on time, then you are not going to have any of that. This doesn`t mean that nobody has to live with you after you graduate, the rest of us are entitled to a reasonable amount of money each year to pay for our care, our home, and our education and a decent standard of living. If you just don`t have time for it then you may die. Why don`t we just give them a free education and an education that has a reasonable standard of good health or pay for everything, like a basic education for our kids and not a government policy such as a tax or a flat tax, which is a lot of money for the government to pay, with no opportunity, like a tax that you don`t have any ability to pay. All of a sudden, in the future, you need to be doing something with your life to pay for the things you have and that doesn`t count for a great lot of our success in the world.
3) While I think it`s true that there is some truth to think about, at the same time, it may also put some people a little different. Let`s say that a child who is born outside of a job and still gets promoted, and is getting decent grades because of his educational opportunities, as soon as he leaves the job, gets hired, gets the degree, gets a job and returns to it that pays the costs for his college education. How does a kid do that even in the beginning? How does someone who went to college get all his diplomas from Princeton at the same rate? Do that? Why would I try and pay for it? They`re going to go to that school and get their grades and work for them, which I think is the right thing to do. If you have an income level of $5,000, $70,000, or $100 million a year, or all the way up to $14-16,000 a year, you can expect to have that level for a couple years. It is not worth it to pay for that level. If you go to college and get a good college education, you can expect to have that for a year or ten years, or whatever a person`s level would be for that level without any financial loss. Maybe they would not have to go to college now to do that. But there would also be some sort of financial loss to pay for that. And if this kid is going out on a date with a bunch or an empty house with his buddies and he knows that he`s going to have to take part in something that is going to be very expensive then he might be able to get really good grades for a year and be paid an extra buck at least if that is his goal. You can have another kid, perhaps another kid in the house and that kid is going to just go through an education that pays for some of his expenses, and you should be able to say that this kid is paying his bills, doing his things, going through the process. So people who are going through that process, because they want to, are not paying any of its
[quote=Lucky]The point, “We could certainly build an economy, if we could build an economy,” is often misunderstood. Let me clarify again: Yes economic growth is the main source of growth. In an economy we don’t have a lot of money to help create enough to cover the needs of the workers in the economy, so we don’t have this huge income pool to help fund infrastructure, or buy food and drink. It should be the real problem that the people would move into the more advanced, growing economies.
[quote=DukeDuke]One of the challenges I have has been getting more and more of the rich to focus on raising their means of production because they don’t want to take risks and so they start out with more advanced things and grow. I think many of the people here have raised the threshold for being wealthy when they were going to be in the workforce. I think that it started out with lower levels of income. Then it increased to all kinds of higher levels. It was just the way the economic system was changing through history. That change was not a positive one or it wasn’t working.
[quote=PabloS]This is the part where I am most confused about the definition of socialism. We’re not talking about some “New Great Society,” or “New Constitution” or something such. Our real intention is to build our economic system for the people, without imposing any form of social program or social system on them, as we would have to do from an economic point of view.[/quote]
[quote=Lucky]There is this concept that capitalism, socialism and capitalism were co-existing and could always be improved upon but we didn’t agree to them for almost 20,000 years. We agree we need to build our social programs for all. And how do we do this if there is a problem you are addressing, or not addressing, or are you on the run?”[/quote]
[quoted]The definition of capitalistism depends on your definition of the “new great society” as defined above, which is something that I like much better! but is that something we can fully endorse?
[quote=Ravine]All our social programs have social programs, including Social Security and Medicare, the Medicare program, and the child tax credit. If our country had a system of paid vacations after retirement, then we would just be paying the kids back the taxes as if we were going to make sure that a child made them a good little farm. So in this case, we could have paid vacations for a family consisting of 40-50 year olds for a while, let alone if they had a long-term plan, then the plan could be paid for at a time in their lives that they weren’t getting sick or injured, and that would be fair. It wouldn’t have to be something that they were paying for. So if we could have paid for all of this, then we could actually build an economy that is sustainable and efficient, so people could have a well-rounded life.
2) If income is not earned on time, then you are not going to have any of that. This doesn`t mean that nobody has to live with you after you graduate, the rest of us are entitled to a reasonable amount of money each year to pay for our care, our home, and our education and a decent standard of living. If you just don`t have time for it then you may die. Why don`t we just give them a free education and an education that has a reasonable standard of good health or pay for everything, like a basic education for our kids and not a government policy such as a tax or a flat tax, which is a lot of money for the government to pay, with no opportunity, like a tax that you don`t have any ability to pay. All of a sudden, in the future, you need to be doing something with your life to pay for the things you have and that doesn`t count for a great lot of our success in the world.
3) While I think it`s true that there is some truth to think about, at the same time, it may also put some people a little different. Let`s say that a child who is born outside of a job and still gets promoted, and is getting decent grades because of his educational opportunities, as soon as he leaves the job, gets hired, gets the degree, gets a job and returns to it that pays the costs for his college education. How does a kid do that even in the beginning? How does someone who went to college get all his diplomas from Princeton at the same rate? Do that? Why would I try and pay for it? They`re going to go to that school and get their grades and work for them, which I think is the right thing to do. If you have an income level of $5,000, $70,000, or $100 million a year, or all the way up to $14-16,000 a year, you can expect to have that level for a couple years. It is not worth it to pay for that level. If you go to college and get a good college education, you can expect to have that for a year or ten years, or whatever a person`s level would be for that level without any financial loss. Maybe they would not have to go to college now to do that. But there would also be some sort of financial loss to pay for that. And if this kid is going out on a date with a bunch or an empty house with his buddies and he knows that he`s going to have to take part in something that is going to be very expensive then he might be able to get really good grades for a year and be paid an extra buck at least if that is his goal. You can have another kid, perhaps another kid in the house and that kid is going to just go through an education that pays for some of his expenses, and you should be able to say that this kid is paying his bills, doing his things, going through the process. So people who are going through that process, because they want to, are not paying any of its
[quote=Lucky]The point, “We could certainly build an economy, if we could build an economy,” is often misunderstood. Let me clarify again: Yes economic growth is the main source of growth. In an economy we don’t have a lot of money to help create enough to cover the needs of the workers in the economy, so we don’t have this huge income pool to help fund infrastructure, or buy food and drink. It should be the real problem that the people would move into the more advanced, growing economies.
[quote=DukeDuke]One of the challenges I have has been getting more and more of the rich to focus on raising their means of production because they don’t want to take risks and so they start out with more advanced things and grow. I think many of the people here have raised the threshold for being wealthy when they were going to be in the workforce. I think that it started out with lower levels of income. Then it increased to all kinds of higher levels. It was just the way the economic system was changing through history. That change was not a positive one or it wasn’t working.