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Inequality Of Knowledge Essay

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It could be said that knowledge is like a bank where there is every single type of coin and every single type of dollar that just sits around waiting to be in circulation. Although, with this bank, there seems to be a few problems. There is no way to know if any part of the money is fake, so using a fake dollar would not bode too well. Also, some people grow up with a lot more in their banks to use than others, and the drive for knowledge that we find today, has left some at the very top and others in the world very behind. In that strange metaphor I was trying to explain that when it comes to knowledge, we don’t know if what we know is true. In today’s time knowledge is extremely accessible, but it’s difficult to obtain the right information. If every single dollar was a fake, how would we know if we have only the other dollars to compare? Also, there is vast inequality in the knowledge that people have compared to others. Knowledge sometimes is not going to the people who need it the most. It’s great that for us we live in an area with schools and libraries and internet access nearby ,but that cannot truly be said for kids in impoverished areas, who are unable to travel to school or pay their …show more content…

It can be applied to even a country like the U.S. There was that entire news scandal about a former government employee, Edward Snowden, who had leaked a great deal about the way the NSA had been watching and surveying over U.S citizens. It’s amazing to note that no one really knew about how almost every piece of data on our phones could be scoured for any information leading to terrorists. They look at our pictures, and our messages, and even record the length of our phones calls for any piece of information. By trying to keep us safe they acted like the ones we need to be protected from. It truly makes a person wonder what else they do not know in their

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