The growing trends in unemployment in South Africa and their interconnections to increases in inequality
Please refer to the article
"EMPLOYMENT AND INEQUALITY OUTCOMES IN SOUTH AFRICA"
at
http://www.oecd.org/employment/emp/45282868.pdf
This is indeed a concern everywhere. However I do not know why people everywhere continue to feel that it is possible to reduce or even eliminate inequalities in a world where social stratification is entrenched: upper, middle and lower social classes. Let us remember that the implications of this is an unequal distribution of power, authority and influence and those who have more of any of these would use it for self-preservation and the maintenance of a system that serves their interests. While I am not advocating a shift towards communism it seems as though the world is caught between a rock and a hard place give that democracy is designed to serve the needs of all people. This system however finds itself coexisting in the same society with capitalism which is not people-oriented but profit-oriented . In such societies they 'pull'in opposite directions. Capitalism wins out and inequalities are created and never the twain shall meet. Is a solution possible? Yes...we can begin by developing a fairer measure of development.
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