As time goes on, it becomes increasingly clear for more and more Americans that there is something definitely wrong about the functioning of the countryâs governmental institutions.
This reason for this is simple â quite contrary to the official agenda of the advocates of social egalitarianism and political correctness, which during the course of recent decades have been in charge of designing Americaâs domestic policies, the gap between the countryâs rich and poor has been widening in an exponential progression to the flow of time (Miringoff & Miringoff 152). Yet, there are good reasons to believe that this is happening not due to the policy-makersâ lack of enthusiasm in promoting the concept of a welfare state.
Quite on the opposite â this is taking place because the currently deployed approaches to ensuring a social fairness within the society are based upon utterly unscientific assumption of citizensâ equality, regardless of what happened to be the specifics of their genetically predetermined rate of Intellectual Quotidian (IQ). In my paper, I will aim to explore the validity of this suggestion at length.
One of the main argumentations, as to what causes a growing number of Americans to suffer from poverty, deployed by neo-Marxian social scientists, is the assumption that the countryâs GNP continues to be unequally distributed among citizens (Rawls 245).
In its turn, this causes many left-wing politicians to suggest that, in order for the rate of inequality within the American society to be kept under control, the government should consider hiring more bureaucrats, whose job would be concerned with ensuring a fair distribution of the national wealth among âunderprivilegedâ Americans.
Some of these politicians go as far as proposing the institutialization of the so-called âPeace Departmentâ, the representatives of which would be endowed with the executive powers to exercise an administrative control over the functioning of the countryâs free-market economy â all for the sake of advancing the cause of âequalityâ (Cronkite par. 4).
Nevertheless, even though that the equality-obsessed social scientists prove themselves thoroughly insightful, once the distribution of wealth is being concerned, they appear to lack the basic understanding of what causes the GNP to be generated, in the first place, and what accounts for the discursive aspects of the wealthâs generation in a post-industrial era.
This partially explains these peopleâs unawareness of the fact that, as of today, the value of âhuman capitalâ continues to increase; whereas, the value of âphysical capitalâ is steadily declining (Milanovic 7). And, it is specifically the varying measure of peopleâs endowment with the ability to operate with utterly abstract categories (intellect), which defines the extent of their objective value, as âhuman resourcesâ.
The reason for this is apparent â the more a particular individual is being capable of relying on its intellect, while facing life-challenges, the more he or she is capable of acting as the agent of a technological progress. And, the more a particular countryâs economy is being technologically-intense, the less it requires natural resources to sustain its continual functioning. Nowadays, peopleâs intellect has assumed the subtleties of a âphysical capitalâ, in the literal sense of this word.
Therefore, contrary to what the hawks of âequalityâ suggest, there is nothing unnatural about the fact that; whereas, software designers are being commonly paid as much as $500 per hour, the countryâs manual laborers (whose number is growing, due to the âmulticulturalismâ policy) rarely receive more than $10 for an hour of their work.
The objective principles of the free-market economy functioningâ determine such a state of affairs â not the money-greedy capitalists. In its turn, this explains the continual growth of the so-called âred marketâ, where people sell their bodily organs for money (Carney 32). Apparently, being unable to sell their intellect, impoverished people from the Third world countries are left with no choice but to sell the parts of their bodies â in full accordance with the Darwinian laws (Dillard 6).
Yet, in the light of recent discoveries in the fields of biology and genetics, these peopleâs continual poverty (and consequently, their willingness to sell their organs) cannot be solely explained by the fact that they have been denied an opportunity to receive a good education. Rather, this situation reflects the fact that, due to the specifics of these peopleâs genetic makeup, the rate of their IQ is doomed to remain very low â hence, making it impossible for them to attain a social prominence.
Given the fact that, due to the institutionalization of the âcelebration of diversityâ policy in this country, America is now being flooded with legal and illegal immigrants from the Third World, known for their unsurpassed talent in baby-making, there is nothing utterly surprising about the fact that, as time goes on, the educational and living standards in this country continue to deteriorate rapidly. In its turn, this contributes even more to the problem of âinequalityâ.
However, instead of admitting the scientifically proven fact that the very laws of biological evolution (which apply to the representatives of Homo Sapiens species, as much as they apply to plants and animals) expose the fallaciousness of the assumption of peopleâs de facto equality, the governmental officials prefer to remain in the state of an intellectual denial, in this respect. Consequently, this causes them to address the problem of inequality extensively.
That is, instead of revealing the inequalityâs objectively predetermined roots, they simply strive to conceal its true causes by the mean of legislating a number of âequality promotingâ policies (such as the âaffirmative actionâ) and subjecting citizens to the censorship of political correctness (Valenzuela par. 4).
Moreover, in order to be able to finance the implementation of their âequality facilitatingâ policies, these politicians meddle with the functioning of Americaâs free-market economy, while trying to turn the U.S. into an essentially Socialist state. Yet, as it was implied by Gladwell, the idea that the capitalist economy can be simultaneously âfreeâ and âsupervised/plannedâ is conceptually wrong, because it does not take into account the Heisenbergâs âuncertainty principleâ, which defines the very essence of the universeâs workings (164).
As a result, the economyâs functioning continues to become ever more inefficient, which negatively affects the process of the GNPâs generation â hence, reducing the amount of âwealthâ that is supposed to be equally shared among âunderprivilegedâ citizens and establishing objective prerequisites for them to continue suffering from poverty.
I believe that the provided line of argumentation is being fully consistent with the paperâs initial paper. Apparently, in order for American policy-makers to be able to set this country on the path of becoming socially fair, they would have to reassess the validity of the ideology-driven paradigm of peopleâs âequalityâ. The reason for this is simple â it would make possible for politicians to adopt a scientific approach towards increasing the extent of ordinary citizensâ economic well-being.
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