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ASSIGNMENT 4
DUE DATE: 5 APRIL 2024
, lOMoAR cPSD| 22631064
ASSESSMENT 04:
FAIR'S FAIR
So, in assessment 2, we reflected on a particular case involving great wealth - Bob van Dijk and his
R 1.9 billion payout in 2018/2019. In assessment 3, we reflected on very severe poverty and abuse
in the supply chain of a global commodity - cobalt.
In this assessment we are going to think about the possibility that these two issues - great wealth and
great poverty - might be linked by focusing on the proposal in Assessment 1 that:
“The wealth of a few depends on the poverty of many.”
To make this possibility really come alive though, we want you to consider two of the questions in
assessment 1 together:
"Of the top 10 wealthiest people (all men), eight are tech billionaires. Their net worth is US$
1.1 trillion or ZAR 22 trillion"
(To put this into a bit of perspective, the South African Government Employee Pension Fund, South
Africa's biggest asset owner has somewhere between ZAR 2 and ZAR 3 trillion
STEP 1
“IS THIS, OKAY?”
No ,it’s not okay for people to be leaving below the poverty line, I mean there are things that
can be done to help the needy as much as we can never be equal as people in terms of
standard of living I’m quite sure that there are things that as a country can be done to help the
poor and the needy, by so doing if not eliminate we can somehow reduce the level of poverty
and build a better nation everyone can be proud to live in, I think we Can somehow close the
gap between the rich and the poor, the few people suffering the better because we can’t be
having filthy rich people while others are extremely poor it doesn’t balance at all. It is not fair to
be earning so much money while there are some earning peanuts and some are not even
getting anything at all, this money is better used in other NGO’S or any other beneficial, it can
even be through sponsoring in disadvantaged rural places and very remote areas
ANANALYSIS OF THE INEQUALITIES DESCRIBED USING JOHN RAWLS TWO [THREE
PRINCIPLES IN THE CORRECT ORDER] ALL THREE PRINCIPLES MUST BE
CONSIDERED
A. PRINCIPLE 1: GREATEST EQUALITY LIBERTY
According to the 1st principle “GREATEST EQUALITY LIBERTY” which is based on decisions
which guarantees basic non-negotiable human rights, its well within the rights the likes of Elon
musk, bill gates and others to be earning the amount of money they all accumulating it is well
within their rights. Hence, we still have that lovely tales of the “RAGS TO RICHES” that, so the
inequality of wealth in our case is not in conflict with the FIRST PRINCIPLE OF RAW
ASSIGNMENT 4
DUE DATE: 5 APRIL 2024
, lOMoAR cPSD| 22631064
ASSESSMENT 04:
FAIR'S FAIR
So, in assessment 2, we reflected on a particular case involving great wealth - Bob van Dijk and his
R 1.9 billion payout in 2018/2019. In assessment 3, we reflected on very severe poverty and abuse
in the supply chain of a global commodity - cobalt.
In this assessment we are going to think about the possibility that these two issues - great wealth and
great poverty - might be linked by focusing on the proposal in Assessment 1 that:
“The wealth of a few depends on the poverty of many.”
To make this possibility really come alive though, we want you to consider two of the questions in
assessment 1 together:
"Of the top 10 wealthiest people (all men), eight are tech billionaires. Their net worth is US$
1.1 trillion or ZAR 22 trillion"
(To put this into a bit of perspective, the South African Government Employee Pension Fund, South
Africa's biggest asset owner has somewhere between ZAR 2 and ZAR 3 trillion
STEP 1
“IS THIS, OKAY?”
No ,it’s not okay for people to be leaving below the poverty line, I mean there are things that
can be done to help the needy as much as we can never be equal as people in terms of
standard of living I’m quite sure that there are things that as a country can be done to help the
poor and the needy, by so doing if not eliminate we can somehow reduce the level of poverty
and build a better nation everyone can be proud to live in, I think we Can somehow close the
gap between the rich and the poor, the few people suffering the better because we can’t be
having filthy rich people while others are extremely poor it doesn’t balance at all. It is not fair to
be earning so much money while there are some earning peanuts and some are not even
getting anything at all, this money is better used in other NGO’S or any other beneficial, it can
even be through sponsoring in disadvantaged rural places and very remote areas
ANANALYSIS OF THE INEQUALITIES DESCRIBED USING JOHN RAWLS TWO [THREE
PRINCIPLES IN THE CORRECT ORDER] ALL THREE PRINCIPLES MUST BE
CONSIDERED
A. PRINCIPLE 1: GREATEST EQUALITY LIBERTY
According to the 1st principle “GREATEST EQUALITY LIBERTY” which is based on decisions
which guarantees basic non-negotiable human rights, its well within the rights the likes of Elon
musk, bill gates and others to be earning the amount of money they all accumulating it is well
within their rights. Hence, we still have that lovely tales of the “RAGS TO RICHES” that, so the
inequality of wealth in our case is not in conflict with the FIRST PRINCIPLE OF RAW
