1. Income Disparity
2. Energy
3. Education
4. Old people in positions of power and influence
5. Fast Food
Solutions:
1. Force Fast food companies to adopt practices that provide
both nutritious and convenient food with sanctions and bans on certain products
and production methods.
2. Government needs to start allocating more funds to public
education and programs to enrich the learning experiences for children in the
k-12 system. Also funding programs to better train and prepare teachers and
instructors in material and implementing effective instructive methods.
3. Start taxing individuals with larger incomes much more and
regulate the prices of necessary goods relative to the population's average
income.
4. Didn't know how to get rid of the older people besides
retirement but if one were to amass a strong following to rearrange the orders
of power then I wouldn't be opposed.
5. Implement a permanent cease and desist of use of fossil
fuels and other resources for power over a certain amount of years and have a
yearly quota of renewable power source research and implementation
So Income Disparity is top on the list of problems for me
because a few reasons. First, it hits close to home because I am definitely on
the lower end of the disparity. Second, more often than not happiness in
today's society is focused around a consumer mindset and so the lack of the
ability to consume for most the population inherently creates unhappiness and
disdain. Third, if most of the wealth in the country is held by just 10 percent
our economy, which runs on an powerhouse middle class, is then left at the
hands of their mercy because the middle class slowly loses it's ability to
perform.
As for my solutions the one I feel is most implementable is
the forced adoption of better food practices by fast food giants. Reason being
because if there ever was a time, it's now. Consumers no longer back the big
three like they used to having opted for better food services like Panera Bread
and even Chipotle. They want better products. This gives less market share to
chains of old and would then make it easy for FDA to implement stricter rules
on food production and nutritional value.
I really enjoyed reading your post. I agree that fast food is a very big problem, with a very easy solution. It is unfortunate that the government can't do more to regulate something like that, but then again we live in a country where we are guaranteed many rights in order to make our own choices, regardless of personal consequences. Maybe the government could subsidize nutritious crops, as opposed to GMO corn crops. Check out my article -- http://ent3003sw.blogspot.com/2016/01/top-5-worlds-problems.html
ReplyDeleteIncome disparity is an issue in the world such as an NFL player making more money than the average doctor would. Although I'm not too sure about your solution with regulating the prices of necessary goods relative to the population's average income since the individuals with the lower income's would be getting the bad end of the deal. We have the same issue on education and I do think we should be more strict on the teachers we have that will teach the new generation what they need to know the most efficient way but your solution with funding public education will not necessarily help with it. Sure it will make them buy more expensive amenities, but maybe we should also learn how other countries like Finland and Denmark run their education system which may increase our countries leaning experience.
ReplyDeleteIf you would like to read my blog post, here's the link: http://thisisnotawkward.blogspot.com/2016/01/top-5-world-problems.html