is there any discrimination between the poor and the rich in todays everyday life?
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Of course, unfortanetly where I live I have to witness it every day...
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they do everyday in the form of grants , scholarships , affirmative action and the ability to be racist without anyone accusing them .  welfare seems to be a pretty good form of reparations nowadays .
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I think today, more than ever before, money determines class--those that have not (like me) would probably make up the laboring class until technology either removes the need for such a class, or society (the socio-economic entity) evolves to the point where the distinctions become irrelevant...
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The rich are richer.\nThe poor and middle class are poorer.\nthere are fewer freedoms.\nthe New World order's agenda is racing ahead,
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Unfortunatly NO.\nThere is in some countries, One LAW for the rich, and one for the poor.\nEven in progressivly modern countries, the LAW do'es not always seem to work.
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Your comment reminds me of a Star Trek episode.  There is a planet on which most of the population has to work in harsh mining conditions to support the Cloud City Dwellers, a fantastically advanced city that floats above the planet.  The hard work of the people on the planet surface support the fortunate cloud city inhabitants.  The workers below live a harsh, unpleasant life.  The people in the floating city live a life of luxury.\n\nIt is the lower castes in India that make possible the life the elites there enjoy.\n\nAs you can see, I carefully sidestepped your question. Why? Because your supposition may be, in the short term, correct. India may not benefit globally in the short run, but eventually it will have to address this permanent underclass and fix these inequalities.
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Disadvantage is that some people are becoming more rich while others are becoming more and more dependent on them. Advantages- those rich people can help others, the standard of living must increase for all people.
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Lack of a middle class is what defines a third world nation as a third world nation.  The US however is too volitile to accept that for long so what it'd really mean was war. What the sides would be who knows at this point but there would deffinitely be a lot of blood spilled. \n\nI agree that the middle class is fast disapeering. Most "wealthy" people think of themselves as middle class. That is many of the top %10 in income think they are middle class and live middle class life styles.
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Not sure what prejudice towards the poor you can find that compares to that suffered by races, sexes and other groups?  \n\nBut why is it prejudice when some want a solution to groups impovershed.
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Unfortunately the poor are usually less educated than the upper class(not  saying all upper class's are smarter than the poor but) people tend to live by example, if the parents are poor and they are raised poor they just seem to find it easier to follow than to fight.
688448
No. They are the working poor which covers a lot of things.
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All people are equal,\nyet not all are treated equal.\n\nAnd that is the difference.
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It’s not a question of colour but financial status. Poor people are more likely to steal. In the USA the rate of blacks is high among the poor. This can be the reason, I guess. Well, in my country many more white people steal.
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Justice implies an even hand, \nthat there exisist a real standard that applies to all.\n\nthis is obviously not the case in city to city in state to state.\nthere is the impression of justice, when a high profile case on tv gets played over and over.\nbut as for the poor who everyday enter our legal system,\n\nit is not the same for them.\nThe rich have resources and connections we can not even imagine....
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everyone faces discrimination. \n\nVery attractive people are assumed to be stuck up.\nVery fat people are assumed to be lazy.\nVery ugly people are assumed to be stupid.\nVery tall people are assumed to be basketball players.\nVery short people are assumed to be midgets.\nAsians are assumed to be good at math.\nBlacks are assumed to be theives.\nMuslim people are assumed to be terrorists.\nWhite people are assumed to be racist.
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The falling of many Middle Class People to being below the Poverty level, without changing anything in their lives has always amazed me.  Of course the amount of people in your family has to do with the level of the Poverty being set.  Think about the fact that many people are actually living the same life as they always have, same job, same home, same family and have fallen under the poverty level and not known about it. I think that would be an interesting place to start.  I believe that we think of poverty as having nothing and the government sets levels that makes many who live decent lives fall under poverty levels.  By this it is like the calling of Beverly Hills as an economically disadvantaged city because of the lack of jobs per capita in that city.  Well it is that way because the land is mainly used for individual residences and that is the way they want it, yet under government guidelines it falls into that category.  What I am saying is that you need to start with placing an actual definition of poverty and then look at the people who don't fit the category and then question why?
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Often, not always, welathy think their material wealth makes them inherently better people.  Often the opposite is true.  Many times wealthy demonstrate more character flaws than do middle class working individuals.  If your car ever breaks down it won't be a rich person who stops and helps--it will be a middle class or poor person.  I walked out of a shopping mall to find I had a dead battery late one night and I asked a nice BMW owner for a jump (i had cables in my trunk.)  He shook his head and said, "No."\n\nIn a poetic twist of fate that only O. Henry would appreciate, about two weeks later I drove past this guy while he was getting out of his car with a blown out tire.  It was late one evening and I was returning from a high school basketball game that had just ended.  I stopped to help him and I recognized him immediately.  He thanked me for stopping.  Once I saw him and laughed and reminded him of his refusal to help me with my dead battery.  He apologized and said he was in a hurry that day.  I smiled and said, "What do you know.  I'm in a hurry tonight.  Good luck, Pal."\n\nYes, I know I was just like him.  But perhaps for the first time in his life he understood how the shoe felt on HIS foot.  I may have helped him more by leaving him deserted on that lonely stretch of road than I could have ever helped him by changing his spare tire for him.