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Income inequality in America has been growing rapidly, and is expected to increase [PDF]. While the widening wealth gap is a hot topic in the media and on the campaign trail, there's quite a disconnect between the perceptions of economists and those of the general public.
For instance, surveys show people tend to underestimate the income disparity between the top and bottom 20% of Americans, and overestimate the opportunity for poor individuals to climb the social ladder. Additionally, a majority of adults believe that corporations conduct business fairly despite evidence to the contrary and that the government should not act to reduce income inequality.
Even though inequality is increasing, Americans seem to believe that our social and economic systems work exactly as they should. This perspective has intrigued social scientists for decades. My colleague Andrei Cimpian and I have demonstrated in our recent research that these beliefs that our society is fair and just may take root in the first years of life, stemming from our fundamental desire to explain the world around us.
http://theconversation.com/lifes-not-fair-so-why-do-we-assume-it-is-45981
(Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday September 11 2015, @03:09AM
Agreed here. I have respect for these women on the basis of my education as an Amazon, although I cannot help on that basis to wonder why they had the children in the first place. Do they not have access to contraception? Becoming pregnant is a deliberate act in the Amazon world.
Raising a child needs two parents. The Amazon model is weird in that regard. Male children are given back to the father, with knowledge that machismo will cause him to be the sole provider. Meanwhile, female children have the benefit of a village to raise them.
I have great respect for my tribe back in Qinghai, but there were questionable things that made me ultimately leave them.