The increasing inequality gap around the world
The increasing inequality gap around the world is alarming as the poor become more miserable, and the rich continue to grow more prosperous. McNally analysis of the debt, discipline, and dispossession shows that poverty is not an accident, and some elements have been used for decades to discriminate and particular oppression groups in society. When the colonizers left their colonies in Africa, they had exploited the natives. They destroyed their social, political, and economic stability, and this prompted the Africa government to borrow from their former European colonies. McNally (2010) states that, “Across millennia, the poor have often needed to borrow from the rich—particularly during times of drought, famine, and war” (121). After watching the movie, there was envy after the end of world war two by the United States government, who, instead of colonization, they introduced loans. Thus the independent countries were once again caught in an institutional system. The introduction of large and mortgages was the new form of colonialism as the defaulters’ countries being forced to import and consume products. Debt was used as a way of remote control of the developing world, where the colonizers took advantage of the challenges the countries were facing by offering huge loans that were hard or impossible to repay.
After watching The End of Poverty, one can comprehend how European countries used colonization and slavery to establish discipline and obedience to workers. They were able to create boundaries on what was supposed to be glorified, respected, and valued. The people of color were made to believe they were inferior to the whites and thus continued to be oppressed and denied access to health facilities or other basic amenities. The people who refused to be disciplined were doomed to “unemployment, poverty, and the insecurity, ill health, and hardship these entails” (McNally 113). Discipline was firmly embedded in the minorities, which was enforced by the brutal police force, which used weapons to enforce discipline to those who did not conform to the set disciplines. This allowed the white supremacist to continue enjoying free and cheap labor at the expense of the poor, which was further incorporated in religion such as Christianity, which required a servant to be faithful to their masters. The discipline was more enforced on young black people who would have to deal with the inhumane police force if they tried to resist the institutional system in place.
Dispossession is one of the tactics that was used by the colonial masters to subdue inferior members of society by denying them land and any means of production. The issue of dispossession was extensively highlighted in the film, where farmers in Asia and Africa continue to be denied access to land. Case in point, in Kenya, the local community does not possess land many years after independence with large foreign corporations and individuals owning thousands of acres. McNally claims that “The sad saga of Third World privatization is a reminder that debt is being used here as a weapon of dispossession” (131). The dispossessions continue to be very active today, with the developed countries taking hostage of the third world countries through debts. Capitalism is the tool that has been used by the superior to radically discriminate and oppress people in terms of their skin color, which continues to disadvantage this group in society. McNally analysis and the film The End of Poverty proves that poverty is not what we are told about by capitalism has been used to plan it since the age of slavery and colonialism. Today, it will be unfair to blame people in developing countries for languishing in poverty because they have been imposed debt, discipline, and dispossession.