Economic inequality leads to Social problems

[RGacky3]

Crime, teen pregnancy, prison rates, health problems and so on, linked to inequality.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fPAlOB_OPGc/ThEy3J_iwYI/AAAAAAAADO4/IZobkgmd11Y/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-07-03+at+11.25.56+PM.png
http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/images/uploads/inequality_1.png

Its the same chart, but it juts shows what is actually being index'd.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/mar/12/equality-british-society

Also heres a chart showing peoples general view of other people and inequality, i.e. can most people be trusted.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aVtcBDxbpTs/ThEziOyKfjI/AAAAAAAADO8/V_B8eeW5xYA/s320/Screen+shot+2011-07-03+at+11.28.49+PM.png (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aVtcBDxbpTs/ThEziOyKfjI/AAAAAAAADO8/V_B8eeW5xYA/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-07-03+at+11.28.49+PM.png)

Turns out there is a corrolation there too.

[DarkPast]

Also on the subject of inequality, there's this:

http://www.gettingaround.org/wp-content/uploads/inequality-page25_actualdistribwithlegend.png
(http://www.gettingaround.org/wp-content/uploads/inequality-page25_actualdistribwithlegend.png)

[CommieTroll]

Japan is the lowest? Really? I thought Ireland would be higher too

[RichardAWilson]

=) I see Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark.

[Bud Struggle]

Of course there is also a correlation to illegal immigration and a million other factors. Japan has the lowest and the USA has the highest.

These stats are a fudge fest.

[RichardAWilson]

Illegal immigration explains the entire difference. (Sarcasm)

Why the hell is Scandinavia on the bottom and the Anglo-Saxon (I.e. Australia, Britain, Ireland and America) on the upper section?

Answer: Anglo-Saxon Capitalism leads to joblessness, poverty, homelessness and desperation. Dog-eat-dog isn't good for mental health.

[Bud Struggle]

Illegal immigration explains the entire difference. (Sarcasm)

Why the hell is Scandinavia on the bottom and the Anglo-Saxon (I.e. Australia, Britain, Ireland and America) on the upper section?

Answer: Anglo-Saxon Capitalism leads to joblessness, poverty, homelessness and desperation. Dog-eat-dog isn't good for mental health.

What I am saying is that there are a thousand reasons for all of this. For you or anyone else to say that there is ONE reason for all of these problems is rediculous.

[Tim Cornelis]

What I am saying is that there are a thousand reasons for all of this. For you or anyone else to say that there is ONE reason for all of these problems is rediculous.

Social inequality is the core, which leads to a multitude of sub-reasons that explain the correlation.

And immigration has no such correlation.

[Bud Struggle]

Social inequality is the core, which leads to a multitude of sub-reasons that explain the correlation.

And immigration has no such correlation.

Certainly it does. Immigration laws split families, makes it difficult for kids to get proper education, gets people deported, etc.

The list goes on.

[danyboy27]

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that Economic inequality lead to social problems.

Of course if someone have no job opportunity or a good education this person is more likely to commit crime or become an addict or work for the mob.

Anyone here who have been raised in a north american poor neighborhood can testify that only a handful of people actually get out of there with some sort of education or a good job, the rest are Surviving on the dole, working their ass off for a shitty pay in the service industry, work for a criminal organization, where killed or killed themselves.

Its somehow funny because despite the great efforts from the social-democrats from europe to resolve the issue, the problem remain beccause they only try to cure the symptoms, never the real cause, the root of all social problems.

[Jose Gracchus]

Of course there is also a correlation to illegal immigration and a million other factors. Japan has the lowest and the USA has the highest.

These stats are a fudge fest.

Ah yes, when in doubt, it must be the coloreds.

Immigrant communities are not the poorest and socially most dissolute, which is what you'd expect if Bud's "I Don't Need No Facts Mah, It Must Be the Coloreds!" were true.

[RGacky3]

Of course there is also a correlation to illegal immigration and a million other factors. Japan has the lowest and the USA has the highest.

These stats are a fudge fest.


Show me the stats, because your full of shit, Norway has lots of immigrants, so does lots of european countries.

Show me the states, I come here with facts you come here with "probably."

[Bud Struggle]

Show me the stats, because your full of shit, Norway has lots of immigrants, so does lots of european countries.

Show me the states, I come here with facts you come here with "probably."

Here are the stats: Norway has 5 million people. The USA has 300 million people. There is no apples to apples comparison. I suggest you compare Norway to maybe Commecticut to get a feel for what its issues are like.

Vastly different sets of conditions.

And lookie here!

Suicide rates are vastly higher in Sweden and Finland and even a bit higher in Norway than in the USA! Maybe things aren't so good up in the frozen north.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate

[RGacky3]

Here are the stats: Norway has 5 million people. The USA has 300 million people. There is no apples to apples comparison. I suggest you compare Norway to maybe Commecticut to get a feel for what its issues are like.

Vastly different sets of conditions.

And lookie here!


Yeah, and the economies are proportional, the US is bigger and has a much bigger economy. We might as well have compared europe to the US if it would make you feel better.

France, the UK, The Netherlands, German, Canada and so on and so forth.

And yeah there is a higher suicide rate, and those things have been studied, and they have nothing to do with economic things.

Either way, study stands, and number of people have nothing to do with it, we are talking about economic inequality.

[Zealot]

herp derp they took our jerbs hurrrrrrr black people

Anyways, thanks for the charts comrade I thought this was the case.

[Skooma Addict]

Even though it has already been well established, it is pretty much common sense that economic inequality leads to social problems. This will always be the case no matter how wealthy society is as a whole, since people compare how wealthy they are relative to the general population.

It however wouldn't be as big of a problem if the poor were not treated like second class citizens by the rest of society. The culture nowadays really is dog eat dog, and it hasn't always been the way it is today. There is much less sympathy towards others than there used to be.

[RGacky3]

I think inequality is what makes that culture.

[Rafiq]

I think it is more than Inequality. It is the culture manifested by the Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie, and the impact it had on the proletariat.

[Bud Struggle]

Yeah, and the economies are proportional, the US is bigger and has a much bigger economy. We might as well have compared europe to the US if it would make you feel better.

France, the UK, The Netherlands, German, Canada and so on and so forth.

And yeah there is a higher suicide rate, and those things have been studied, and they have nothing to do with economic things.

Either way, study stands, and number of people have nothing to do with it, we are talking about economic inequality.

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And Gack. I'm laughing WITH you--not AT you.

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