Social Inequality In The Film Born Rich

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In the documentary of Jamie Johnson, “Born Rich,” Jamie has interview some rich teenagers who inherited their wealth like him. Johnson ask himself what he ever did to have the life he has having millions of dollar. He says that all he did was inherit it. Johnson says that it is not polite to talk about money. Social inequality for Johnson in this is about the wealth of people.Johnson and the other teenagers were born rich. They had inherited their money from their ancestors. All of them and their families have private properties and millions of money. Rousseau says that “social inequality is a result of privileges and uneven access to resources and will eventually lead to social ills.”(238) In the book of Dalton Conley, “ You may ask

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