Rich people are getting richer, and poor people are getting poorer. The gap between rich and poor people is widening. What problems can the situation cause? What can be done to reduce this gap?

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Poverty
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is certainly a worrying challenge for most
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countries, especially at a time of economic instability and social unrest.
Poverty
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is the condition in which rich
people
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get richer and poor
people
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get
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poorer.
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gap
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between the rich and poor is mainly responsible for
poverty
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. Inequality is the key factor that causes
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.
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,
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is not the only factor of concern, there
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a range of equally pressing matters that affect and cause
poverty
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. To start with, it is extremely popular among the rich in society to show off their wealth which can be in the
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of luxury cars,
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houses, education facilities from abroad and much more.
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, rich
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invest
money
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to get richer
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in contrast
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poor
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due to lack of
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get poorer
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therefore
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the
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between rich and poor increases. Poor
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face enormous problems
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as unemployment.
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reason for their joblessness is
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of educational facilities. Being poor they are not able to pay high rising schooling fees which in turn leads to unemployment. Real estate prices in cities and towns are ever-increasing which is not affordable by the poor society and
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they are usually found living on
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.
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, if the
government
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focuses on how to reduce the
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between the rich and poor it can create proper wealth distribution.
Government
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can charge the rich society in the
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of taxation. There should be a variety of taxes imposed
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as housing
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, property
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, food
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and clothes
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.
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if
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rich
people
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purchase a property or plan to have an expensive dinner at a boutique restaurant or buy expensive jewellery
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they are inclined to pay a particular amount to the
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in
form
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of
government
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tax
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the additional
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in
form
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of
tax
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paid by the rich gets distributed to the poor by the
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to fulfil their basic needs
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as food, clothes and shelter. To summarise, the problem of
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gap
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the gap
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between the rich and
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the poor
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will increase if the
government
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does not take
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strict action to equally distribute the income and expenditure of
money
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between the poor and the rich.
This
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gap
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is not only harmful on an individual level but
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at the national level since if the number of poor
people
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increases it may lead to
poverty
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and the rich might brain drain the country.

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