Human Inequality: A Worldwide Revolution Is Underway. San José Costa Rica Nov. 2nd, 2019. ravilagut@incruises.com
Extreme poverty is declining. The percentage of the global population living in absolute poverty fell from over 80% in 1800 to 20% by 2015. It is good news.
The bad news is increasing social injustice and lack of development and democracy worldwide. The economic and climate crisis, including oceans and water touches everyone, first and most forcefully the world’s poor.
Whereas within the advanced economies the trend has been towards greater economic and social equality, in the developing world development is tending to create new economic and social inequalities. A worldwide revolution is underway.
Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Hong Kong, Ecuador, Haiti, Lebanon, Iraq, Chile. And now Bolivia. Who´s next? Maybe Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil, Colombia, México, Argentina only in the Americas.
Costa Rica is very similar to Chile. Unemployment in Costa Rica, remained at a high level of 11.4%, the official statistical agency said Thursday.
The statistical agency said that underemployment — people who work less than 40 hours per week in Costa Rica — also had an increase since last year and has reached 11.6%.
Similarly, 46.3% of employed persons work informally, a figure similar to that of the third quarter of last year.
People are rising up around the world against austerity and corruption, defying police forces unleashed to suppress them. These mass movements share a fierce critique of social injustice and lack of democracy.
These global protests also occur at a critical inflection point in history, with 20-40 years, remaining for humanity to transition from a petro economy to one powered by renewable energy and internet of Things/5G.
This renewed spirit of rebellion around the world signifies a rejection of the status quo. The sense of injustice can be a powerful motivational condition, causing people to take action not just to defend themselves but also others who they perceive to be unfairly treated.
All men are brothers. Their differences, therefore, must be settled by friendly agreement, with brotherly love for one another. (Papal Encyclical, Ad Petri Cathedram, 29 June 1959).
Extreme poverty is declining. The percentage of the global population living in absolute poverty fell from over 80% in 1800 to 20% by 2015. It is good news.
The bad news is increasing social injustice and lack of development and democracy worldwide. The economic and climate crisis, including oceans and water touches everyone, first and most forcefully the world’s poor.
Whereas within the advanced economies the trend has been towards greater economic and social equality, in the developing world development is tending to create new economic and social inequalities. A worldwide revolution is underway.
Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Hong Kong, Ecuador, Haiti, Lebanon, Iraq, Chile. And now Bolivia. Who´s next? Maybe Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil, Colombia, México, Argentina only in the Americas.
Extreme poverty is being controlled worldwide but social inequality has increased to levels that we have never seen before in countries like Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Haiti, Chile and lately Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is very similar to Chile. Unemployment in Costa Rica, remained at a high level of 11.4%, the official statistical agency said Thursday.
The statistical agency said that underemployment — people who work less than 40 hours per week in Costa Rica — also had an increase since last year and has reached 11.6%.
Similarly, 46.3% of employed persons work informally, a figure similar to that of the third quarter of last year.
People are rising up around the world against austerity and corruption, defying police forces unleashed to suppress them. These mass movements share a fierce critique of social injustice and lack of democracy.
These global protests also occur at a critical inflection point in history, with 20-40 years, remaining for humanity to transition from a petro economy to one powered by renewable energy and internet of Things/5G.
This renewed spirit of rebellion around the world signifies a rejection of the status quo. The sense of injustice can be a powerful motivational condition, causing people to take action not just to defend themselves but also others who they perceive to be unfairly treated.
All men are brothers. Their differences, therefore, must be settled by friendly agreement, with brotherly love for one another. (Papal Encyclical, Ad Petri Cathedram, 29 June 1959).
