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Poverty exists because our society is an unequal one ,and there are extremely strong and powerful political pressures to keep i
Poverty exists because our society is an unequal one ,and there are extremely strong and powerful political pressures to keep i
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2011-03-01
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Poverty exists because our society is an unequal one ,and there are extremely strong and powerful political pressures to keep it that way. Any attempt to redistribute wealth and income in the United States will inevitably be opposed by powerful middle and upper class interests. People can be relatively rich only if others are relatively poor, and since power is concentrated in the hands of the rich, public policies will continue to reflect their interests rather than those of the poor.
As Herbert Gans (1973) has pointed out, poverty is actually functional from the point of view of the non-poor. Poverty ensures that" dirty" work gets done. If there were, no poor people to scrub floors and empty waste, these jobs would have to be rewarded with high incomes before anyone would touch them. Poverty creates jobs for many of the non-poor, such as police officers, welfare workers, pawnbrokers, and government bureaucrats. Poverty makes life easier for the rich by providing them with cooks, gardeners, and other workers to perform basic chores while their employers enjoy more, pleasurable activities. Poverty provides a market for inferior goods and services, such as day-old bread, run-down automobiles, or the advice of incompetent physicians and lawyers. Poverty makes middle-class values seem acceptable. To the middle class, the fate of the poor — who are supposed to lack the virtues of thrift, honesty, and a taste for hard work — only confirms the desirability of qualities the poor are thought to lack. Poverty also provides a group that can be made to absorb the costs of change. For example, the poor suffer the main part or force of unemployment caused by automaton, and it is their homes, not those of the wealthy, that are demolished when a route has to be found for a new highway. There is no intentional, conscious "secret plan" of the wealthy to keep the poor in poverty. It is just that poverty is an inevitable outcome of the American economic system; which the poor are politically powerless to influence change.
The poor take on" dirty work" because they do it _______.
选项
A、under political pressures
B、for the high pay offered
C、as they are reasonably paid
D、for low salary to raise themselves and their families
答案
D
解析
由题干dirty work定位到第二段第三句,意思是如果没有穷人擦地板或倒垃圾,那么,除非有很高的报酬,否则是没有人愿意做这些工作的,言下之意是穷人们即使报酬低也会做这些工作,故选[D],同时排除[B]、[C]。[A]原文未提及。
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