What causes global inequality?

Question

What causes global inequality?

Answer 1

Like the person above me stated, it's really greed that causes inequality.  Someone gets the idea to capitalize on something....let's take Walmart for example.  Sam Walton got the idea to create a store that had everything in it.  That idea expanded to an international corporation that has one goal: profit.  Now Walmart isn't "evil" because it's a corporation.  And Americans demand lots of cheap goods, regardless of what sweat shop those goods were made in.  So CEO's and their families live on millions of dollars a year.  The employees of most walmarts make a dollar an hour above minimum wage.  So many live right at the poverty line a year(except in California who passed its own laws about wages).  Can Walmart afford to pay its employees better and offer better heatlh benefits?  Of course it can, but that would cut into the profits and the CEO's will not get quite as many millions the following year.  

Of course this is just one example.  All around the world, people with a lot of resources don't want to share.  They see nothing wrong with keeping what is "theirs" from everyone else, and that is what causes global inequality.

Answer 2

The ambition, greed,  and insensitivity of national leadership.  The leaders of some of the nationsthat provide  no health care, food supplements, shelter, clean water, and the development of ways to accomodate the development of food sources by providing water for irrigation.   The supplies provided by other nations to provide survival and health care to these victims are mostly confiscated by the leader, and sold to other nations.  So, my solution to overcome these inhumane behaviors is for large, rich companies to send crews to these nations that will drill wells, for the provision of a clean water supply that will also irrigate the land for growing food.  Providing animals, mostly goats, rabbits, chickens, and maybe a nice herd of cattle to the natives that have experience in how to care for them, building simple shelters with space between them, and providing a latrine area that can be used with privacy, and when filled, covered with a deep layer of earth, marked with a notice of what it was, and digging new ones.  And especially, medical teams and medicine that will be able to provide intervention to so many of the seriously ill.  These interventions can be provided multi nationally, There is a lot of accepted anarchy by mavrick military gangs that prey on the unprotected.  The members of the intervention can be armed, to protect their selves, and corrupt leaders can be deposed, and replaced with leadership that accepts the assistance from the intervention.