Human Minimum and Inequality
摘要
In this chapter, we’ll focus on global poverty and the reasons why we should be concerned about it. This chapter examines the ethical causes of poverty and potential solutions based on Oruka’s idea of the Human Minimum. It attempts to address the fundamental query of whether or not wealthy people or governments have any duty to the underprivileged. How can Oruka’s ideas about the Human Minimum be used to address the issue of poverty? In order to rectify the imbalance and enhance stability and advancement in society, programs for the effective support of the poor on a humane and practical basis must be devised. The chapter discusses poverty in depth, focusing on how it affects underdeveloped countries and their citizens in relation to the principles of the irreducible Human Minimum with the intention of putting Oruka’s theory into practice. In this chapter, I’ll contend that a large portion of the world’s current inequality is unfair, and that this injustice extends beyond the fact that reducing inequality could help achieve the crucial objective of reducing poverty. I believe preserving humanhuman dignity has equitable restorative implications on the state of the global economy. The injustice of the current institutional structure is a justification for altering the global institutional structure in order to reduce inequality and poverty. The author largely agrees in concluding that there is a human right to be free from poverty and that this right is massively violated by the present world economy which creates huge unfair imbalances in income and wealth among and within countries.