Inequality, a Social Issue

For me, the inequality is the one of the most serious social issues that affects at our current society as much for Chile, as much in the whole world.

I understand for inequality, the difference that exists for access to the resources and services, and the difference in the quality of these, although many times it is basic human rights for everybody. Also, I think the inequality is when the people don't have the same opportunities or the same behavior, which should be for every person, but in the reality society it depends of our social and economical stratum.

I consider this problem is caused for the dominant economic system in the world, which makes that everything have a commercial value, and this prevails over the human's needs or over the value of life itself.

In Chile for example, if you don’t have money, you can't access respect healthcare, because in the public healthcare setting you have wait larges queues for medical attention, and much more for a surgery. Also, is very difficult access to the medicine, because it is very expensive and for the poor people is impossible pay for them. So, if you don’t have the money, you don’t have more option that pass long time with the disease, or worse, you can die waiting. For me, this situation is unworthy and embarrassing in our society.

As well, the people have support ill treatment and lack of opportunities for things such basic as health, potable water or education. And as always, the most affected are the poor people, who have to pay the costs of living in a society ruled by money.

Finally, the inequality generates a vicious circle that doesn’t gives opportunities to the poorest to overcome their poverty and the problem then remains for future generations.

Internet: Good or Evil?

If one remembers how we enjoyed when we was child or what was used to play, we can see there is a big difference between the past and the present. Currently, we can see the children pass long time in front of the computers or others things that have access to internet, like a mobile phone, tablets or games console. This, is very common in the new generations, and for them is a normally situation. But if we think in the world one decade ago, we can realize that the life is completely different.

So, if we ask for Internet is good or evil, the answer for me is neither good nor evil, but is many different, because it has social consequences. Now, all do the people is based in the information we receive on the TV or on Internet, and the velocity for this information is increasing. Thus, the speed and the immediacy have become the values for the society, forgetting the importance of the taking time to live or think. But, it seems we get use at the immediacy and now we want all right now, don’t have time for wait.

Something similar happens with the relationships. The immediacy in the world we living now is changed the way that the people relate between them.

In conclusion, I think the Internet is a tool with positive and negative features. It is depends as soon as how the people use internet, because it allows access to a huge amount of information in a short time, also it permit the contact between people and the privacy information. Sometimes, that it becomes a dangerous for the people who don’t take precautions about it. So, we should learn more about how use internet for our profit, and we need to know use the safe way.