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This is a 6 page position paper in regards to Barry Bluestone’s essay “The Inequality Express”. In his paper “The Inequality Express”, Barry Bluestone (1996) discusses aspects of the trends predicted by British sociologist Michael Young in his 1958 book “The Rise of Meritocracy, 1870-2033” in which an individual’s socioeconomic status would no longer be based on lineage or family connections but instead on the differences of education, intelligence, experience and effort by the year 2034. While Bluestone writes that he has not seen such a revolution yet within society he and other social economists believe that there are three clearly defined trends which are consistent: that the distribution of earnings (in the U.S. and the U.K.) reflect the distribution of formal education in the workforce; “the gap in earning between the well educated and the not-so-well educated is steadily increasing”; and, the standard of living for those who are less educated is declining. Despite these trends, Bluestone and his colleagues present possible solutions to the end of inequality; most of which seem unlikely in today’s global free market society.
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his 1958 book "The Rise of Meritocracy, 1870-2033" in which an individuals socioeconomic status would no longer be based on lineage or family connections but instead on the differences of
education, intelligence, experience and effort by the year 2034. While Bluestone writes that he has not seen such a revolution yet within society he and other social economists believe that
there are three clearly defined trends which are consistent: that the distribution of earnings (in the U.S. and the U.K.) reflect the distribution of formal education in the workforce; "the
gap in earning between the well educated and the not-so-well educated is steadily increasing"; and, the standard of living for those who are less educated is declining (Bluestone, 1996, p.
387). Despite these trends, Bluestone and his colleagues present possible solutions to the end of inequality; most of which seem unlikely in todays global free market society. Bluestone readily
admits that there is little agreement in scholars as to the causes, and also solutions, of the trends of inequality within the workforce. He reports that the causes range from
a demand for highly skilled workers for the technologically based present and future, the competition between higher income and lower income countries through globalization or the slow decline in industrialization
and their corresponding workforces (Bluestone, 1996). What I find particularly puzzling at this point in the essay however is that Bluestone did not mention the initial possible link that perhaps
the factors which led to the initial socioeconomic inequality such as lineage, family connections and political influence might still be present in these new trends but may have shifted. Would
it not be the case that the more influential families of the past, which in turn had higher socioeconomic statuses and incomes would still not be the ones whose children
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