I Don't Want to Sound Arrogant... (Post 11)

The division between the rich and poor, although definitely in existance, is somewhat of a touchy subject in that most people will not want to admit that they belong to any particular class. So, in that same notion, the question is posed "Are the rich exploiting the poor?" The answer here is quite hazy in that a case could be made for either point. In the interests of my own time, i will have to say that, in general, the rich seem to be getting richer, the poor poorer, and very few attempts to create a equilibrium in this imbalance are being made amongst the denial of any problems. This is the juvenile approach to problem solving: ignore it and hope it solves itself. This is all to say that the rich are exploiting the poor by increasing their own wealth at the expense of the poor, who continue to get longer hours and reduced pay through loopholes in the constitution (minimum wage clauses can be tweaked under certain circumstances). In this right, yes, the poor are being exploited. On the other hand, the poor are being completely ignored; they are in a sticky situation that the rich like to overlook in an interest to protect their own assets. Philanthropists are few and far between in this world, and those who you do find aren't going to give their money to help aide the poor directly. Typically, money is donated to causes that won't use 100% of the money to directly aide, rather it is a figure closer to 50% after operating costs are taken into account. So, while those who donate their money in an effort to make a change aren't helping as much as they originally thought. This relates back to the scenario in "The Lovers of the Poor" by (as my memory serves) Gwendolyn Brooks, in which the rich gave a little bit of their time and not a whole bunch of effort to helping the poor, and while they had good intentions, did not inherently make a huge difference. So the division is this: the poor are being exploited financially by the rich, yet the opposite end of the answer is that they are not being benefited either.