The broke of American dream

In the United States, the people at the bottom do not even have the most basic living security. There is a scene in the film that has deeply influenced me. Some people are sitting in their houses, and the police outside the door are kicking their doors, driving them away from their homes where they have lived for decades. The reason is that they do not have enough money to pay the bill, but they are not without jobs. They are all working class and have their own wages, but the income paid is not enough to support their lives.

This film examines the current state of the capitalist system in the United States in the form of a documentary. The wealth of the richest 1% of the population exceeds the total of the bottom 95% of the population. 

In the United States, the widening gap between polarization and recovery has become the most important social crisis and political problem, and the gap between rich and poor is still increasing. A small number of people occupy most of the wealth of a country, and it is bound to cause dissatisfaction with most people. The "Occupy Washington" movement in 2011 is a good example. The aim is to protest the serious injustice of society and inequality between rich and poor. 1% of people in the society who have economic and political power will cause a crisis in the lives of most people, such as unemployment, housing, medical insurance, education and other issues.

In addition, due to the global economic downturn, the income of Americans below the middle class has been reduced. It can be seen that the economic recession in the United States and the wide gap between the rich and the poor will directly cause more middle-class income to fall and their wage level fall into income-poor families.

A country develops in a capitalist way will inevitably lead to an increase in income inequality. In the long run, this trend cannot be overshadowed by the growth of total wealth and external adjustments. And in my opinion, the inequality of income and wealth also has a negative impact on economic growth. Since the people at the bottom do not have enough money to consume, they will certainly not drive economic growth. Therefore, inequality in income and wealth distribution may be an important reason for the slow recovery of the US economy. 

Income inequality will cause a lack of family education, which will lead to a small upward mobility in American society, which will have a negative incentive effect on American youth. According to research, 63% of young Americans believe that the American dream is impossible to achieve, and this pessimism about the future is directly related to the high unemployment rate of the American society and the low income of the bottom people.

In the United States, how to reduce the social gap between rich and poor has become an urgent issue. I believe that it is not the increase in taxes and social welfare that can help solve this problem. Because this may make the people at the bottom idle, instead of striving forward. The really effective way should be to implement some incentives to save, remove asset restrictions, let low-income families regard savings as a reliable means, and at the same time help these families establish financial savings in a flexible way of saving, and introduce a corresponding financial security credit system.