李紋君 Wendy

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’...

In Ancient Greece, democracy was a system that only adult male citizens who had a land ownership could participate in. Nowadays, democracy is that everyone should have equal opportunities to make decisions for all of the society, no matter who you are. But does it really mean “everyone” can take part in equally in all of the decision-making processes? For instance, there is a presidential election for elector to select which presidential candidate they want to lead the country for every four years. But how could these people become a candidate? In my own opinion, most of the candidates are rich, or even have strong political background. For this reason ,they have more capability to join in political activities than other people who has no power in political circle, above all, t he power are still holding in the minority’s hands in this situation, the rulers may not listen to the public about their needs . To sum up, modern democracy is still controlled by money and power. In ...