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Wealth Inequality and Human Rights

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Last time, I had said that the wealth inequality is caused by the democracy. And this time, I’m going to talk about the severe wealth inequality and human rights. Wealth inequality means the extreme wealth disparity between the rich and the poor. The minority can own the most of the money in our society, and in other words, the majority owns the rest of the money. And how about the human rights? In my opinion, human rights are the legal entitlements that let us to have the opportunity to live equally. But what is the connection between these two? Actually, all human beings should be born free and equal in dignity and rights, but there are still billions of people do not have the opportunity to live equally. This is a serious problem that caused by money. For instance, to maintain our most important human rights—the right to life, we need food, fresh air, clean water and other elements to support our lives. But to get these things for survival, we need money. Without money, we can’