now economies of scale favor skilled workers, new tech jobs and favor corporate countries.
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Governments are struggling to make these inequalities decrease because of the increase in globalization.
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more problems: economists have underestimate inequality within individual countries and the extent to which it has increased. Why? Because surveys underrepresent the wealthy and underreport income derived from property.
Lack counting the rich!
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Globalization left many citizens behind who couldnt keep up, especially in India!
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Trend, countries with the biggest economies tend to have the biggest inequalities within individuals.
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The Gini coefficient is used to measure these income inequalities . However, its problematic because many countries cant measure and compare accurately the income of all and sometimes even miss some households.
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Some examples to close those inequality gaps is the process of redistributing wealth, providing more benefits and more.
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inequality within individuals in countries is actually increasing. So the gap between rich and poor is probably increasing.
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Global inequality is actually declining!
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Claim: Global inequality is far higher than individual country inequalities.
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California District Attorney’s Office argued against early parole because the Department of Corrections wanted to keep its labor force
California: Is trying to find legal ways through arguments to keep its labor force.
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shortage of agricultural labor
shortage of agriculture labor because of immigration issues within each states.
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capital market
part of the financial system that deals with raising capital by dealing in with shares, bonds and more.
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property market
The government makes a lot of decisions as to what happens with housing, businesses and overall companies. Some are subsidized and some are completely controlled by private sectors.
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Government plays a huge role is how Singapore and its facilities function. They also make huge decisions like which foreign companies can function and operate in Singapore.
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not subsidiz
Some aspects of Singapores economy is not based on subsidies which means some aspects, the government doesn't pay for half of the cost.
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early 1970s, and the unemployment rate is currently 3% of the labor force
1950's relatively high unemployment rate and the 1970's hit and it went down.
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inflation
Annual increase in the price of goods.
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a threat to personal liber
View points of gov interference.
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Many developing worlds sought free-markets because they believed that was the way to economic development.
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o fund popular programs gave it much greater power than it had possessed a century earlier.
The U.S ability to act quickly under the Great Depression and under War proved that its power and state capacity was relatively strong.
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The Fragile States index suggests that this racial legacy continues to weaken the state, lying behind its weakest indicators: “uneven economic development” and “group grievance
Since our constitution denied so many rights to African Americans, it prolonged and initiated a stage of normalizing African Americans as second-class citizens. However, over time those ideas began to be questioned.
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justified.
Counted slaves as two-thirds of a person because they needed to find some way of preserving slavery in the southern states.
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african slaves with no rights
U.S depended heavily on the large-scale plantation and labor that was executed by the African community, forcibly.
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state simultaneously expanded its territory dramatically via invasion of Native American lands, land purchases from European
While the U.S built and expanded, it was at the expense of removing native people from their native land.
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devolution”
As a result of passing some power over to those who speak different languages, they began fighting for independence because one national unity was not ideal.
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egalitarian
Believing that all people are equal.
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industrialization
Development of industries.
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ndependence
Growing nationalism led to the desire of independence.
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Scotland.
Glorious Rev. of 1688: intro to liberalism and two faiths living under one government.
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acts of Union created a single British parliament joining england, Scotland, and wales under one state.
speaking the same language brought together three pieces of land to unify under one. England, Scotland, and Wales
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secede
withdraw formally from membership
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borrowing openly
New components introduced to Japan allowed for a stronger military and autonomy to form.
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shogunate ceded power
1867: The Western desire and interference led to the fall of the shogunate.
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centralized
Centralized: control under a single authority.
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monarchy
Monarchy: head of the state until death
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Feudal system
feudal system: Landowners provide land in exchange for loyalty and service.
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Japan
Japan, another strong state known for its crazy modern and industrial force.
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one in which states for the first time voluntarily ceded elements of sovereignty to a larger body
This brings up the question of why would the German people give up its own sovereignty knowing that maybe they would receive stability in return.
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Union
Germany's division after the defeat of Hitler and the Nazi Power.
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subsequent reparations to the victorious allies left the nation devastated
The fall of the kaiser and the growth of the Weimar Republic reflected the growing need of a democratic system which failed to pay back reparations, hence the final downfall of the WR
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state’s strength
The military's strength was able to carry out its state's capacity and provide the resources needed that was demanded by the people.
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Bismarck’s
Bismark was able to gobble territory because of the common language that also grabbed the attention of German-speaking people.
highlighted characteristics that made Bismarcks mission possible.
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national unity,
Characteristics of mostly strong states
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consolidation of independent monarchies
consolidation: making something stronger!
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it is far from clear that a viable Afghan state would emerge.
U.S role in Afghanistan proves that the state is weak given international intervention and conflict.
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UN, implement programs to try to rebuild states after conflicts.
Weak states tend to have more space for disaster or conflict which results in the UN's role of restoring or rebuilding damages in those states.
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state consolidation: The State coming together in terms of making agreements, resolving disputes, etc.
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Weber sees modern states as bureaucracy and rational legal authority, not necessarily as the role was passed down to someone.
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Weber, define the state as a monopoly of force over territory.
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elped spur racist hysteria
the system is increasing its oppression
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Black landowners were specifically targeted for not“staying in their place”—that is, not settling for life as sharecroppers.
This suggest that traditional legitimacy was coming into play. Long term ways of viewing systems and values and ways of living prohibited changes for Black communities.
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Most Black farmers wereunable to save enough money to purchase land on their own, so they remained in a high-povertydebt peonage system of sharecropping or tenant farming, where they paid white landowners forland, tools, seeds, and supplies. Many Black farmers
because African Americans were not making enough money, they couldn't purchase land; suggesting that the continued cycle of oppression continued.
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Working conditions
After slavery was abolished, the policy makers still found ways to keep African Americans in this cruel system that forced them to work for cheap labor under horrible conditions.
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d no rights which the white man was bound to respect;
Supreme Cases such as Dred Scott vs. Sanford is an example that the institutions were in favor of creating a society that was in favor of the white population. Thus, lowering the capabilities and opportunities for the black community.
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generating $6.5 to $10 trillion of wealth,
For the United States, the labor was profitable and used as a means of accepting the new norm of taking the people by their will and forcing them into a cycle of enslavement.
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horrid conditions on the slave shipresulted in a mortality rate around 15 percent.
the conditions many enslaved communities felt already put them at a disadvantage.
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“reduce their persons to perpetual slavery.
RELIGIOUS roles established power so strong that they enslaved the black community.
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dehumanization
accepting that our society and our institutions have long dehumanized the population of minority groups, especially to those of African decent.
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result of the destruction of ourintergenerational communities
Suggest their is a lack of communication between generations.
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. Martin Luther KingJr. echoed this sentiment:
Political leader's perspective
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Hundreds of years ofenslavement have devastated our sacred connection to land and overshadowed thousands ofyears of our noble, autonomous farming history.
This long system of enslavement existed under a traditionary legitimate society.
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The next eight weeks offarm labor awakened me to who I was meant to be.
Awakened is often referenced as a time of experiencing new things and realizing how these experiences shape us.
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While trauma is passed down, we don't recognize that it's continued presence has long lasting effects.
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