Conspicuous consumption.
Which refers to spending on expensive goods and services in order to signal wealth to others. The correlation between wealth and superiority is one way economic inequality can lead to social inequality.
He meant that because poverty could easily be fixed by equalising the distribution of wealth (reducing inequity), those people who choose to inflict poverty are the worst criminals in human history. Play monopoly enough times and you'll realise our system is evil.
The Third Estate in France was frustrated with the old regime because they bore the brunt of taxation while having little political power or representation. Comprising the common people, including peasants, urban workers, and the bourgeoisie, they felt exploited by the privileges enjoyed by the First (clergy) and Second (nobility) Estates. This inequity fueled their discontent and desire for reform, ultimately leading to the French Revolution as they sought greater equality and rights within the societal structure.
Inequality refers primarily to the condition of being unequal, and it tends to relate to things that can be expressed in numbers.1Inequity, in its main sense, is a close synonym of injustice and unfairness, so it usually relates to more qualitative matters.2 For example, one might say that income inequality results from inequity in society, or that inequality in taxation is a great inequity.
The noun used for an unequal relationship is inequality or inequity.
how did race ralization inequity
inequality, unfairness, wrong, injury, prejudice
Some of the ways that race has been used to rationalize inequality include bogus experiments aimed at proving blacks have smaller brains
Inequities is the plural of inequity
Robin Arnold has written: 'The paradox of economic growth and inequity' -- subject(s): Economic development, Equality, Social aspects, Social aspects of Economic development
Evidence of Inequity was created on 2005-05-31.
Here are lots of words that mean and could replace the word unfairness: injustice, wrongness, wrong, iniquitousness, unreasonableness, inequitableness, inequity, excess, inequality unethicalness, unethicality, dishonesty, dishonorableness, deceitfulness, fraudulence, falseness, underhandedness, crookedness partiality, one-sidedness, bias, prejudice, discrimination, inequity, favoritism, bigotry
Inequalities are less than, equal to, less than or equal to, or more than or equal to. Inequalities can NOT contain an equal sign.
The word "inequity" means a state of unequal treatment, usually applied to a disparity, injustice, or unfair practice, either actual or perceived. Example : "The taxpayer complained about the inequity of the city's assessments." Example: "The judge noted an inequity in the sentencing for the criminal cases."
Segregation was a form of inequity because blacks were not treated the same as whites.