Why rules and regulations are ineffective for reducing ineqality?

Question

Why rules and regulations are ineffective for reducing ineqality?

Answer 1

Because, to put it very simply, much inequality of outcome is more about *poverty* than it is about race, faith or ethnicity.

So on the one hand, you have a system that is set up that *does not* address one of the big causes of inequality in society, and this is by design because addressing poverty also addresses the wealth-hoarding of others implicitly.

And on the other...you have a system in place, with regards to laws and regulations, wherein traditionally people *with money*--your One Percenters and Have Mores--have always been able to game, loophole, and corrupt the system into a mockery of itself.

Just look at the history of compliance with something called the "Americans with Disabilities Act" in the United States.  People simply *do not* ever comply with the full letter of the law, because it's cheaper and supposedly "necessary" to pick on, among others, people with mental illnesses or others who are *not* openly and very flagrantly disabled the way someone blinded or in a wheelchair would be.  I've known three of my neighbors, all *Need* canes to walk and yet the local Mass Transit system has discriminated against all three men.

It got to the point that with one of them, a young man with cerebral palsy and only one good arm and leg to his name, simply quit riding the damned bus altogether.  This cost him *his life* as some idiot ran him down while the guy was crossing the street, in the crosswalk, with clear *right of way*.

And the driver?  No remorse, even though he ran a red light and *killed someone*.  He was on the evening news that night saying "I don't stop for *Those Kinds Of People*."

Never mind that "those kinds of people" are *also* protected by law, oh no.  Then it might cost people money and seem politically correct to actually *obey the damned law on the books*, wouldn't it?

And how does this happen?  Simply put...the men with canes were all *poor people*, and the guy doing the driving was some rich person in an SUV.  Likewise, the Mass Transit District *has money* and knows the "mopes" locally can't afford to sue.

It's like Abe Lincoln said: "All men are created equal, but some are more equal than others."  And that distinction boils down to *Money*, how much justice you can *Buy* as a Rich Man and how *Little* the law protects you from unnecessary poverty.

I hope this was helpful.  Thanks for your time!

Answer 2

Because it is a built in quality/character  and have lots of prejudices and egos associated with it.Unless people think practically and sensibly it will not change. No rules and regulations will help. People have to change. As long as rich-poor, religion, caste and community,colour  feelings are there it is very difficult to visualize.