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AP World History 4.2 Industrialization and Global Integration, c. 1750 to c. 1900. Which of the following best explains the rise of global inequality during the Industrial Revolution?
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- 00:04
And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by global
- 00:06
inequality illustrated here in an entirely objective and unbiased pie [piechart of global inequality]
- 00:10
chart here's your question which of the following best explains the rise of
- 00:15
global inequality during the industrial revolution
- 00:17
and here are the potential answers... well the first one a bit too crazy for us to believe it
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- 00:27
was called the Industrial Revolution for a reason people lots and lots of money
- 00:31
was being made through industrial production and shipping
- 00:34
why would Africa and Asia say no to that it just doesn't make any sense what
- 00:38
about C, well it is right some countries didn't have the financial [Answer C on piece of paper]
- 00:42
resources to industrialize and B isn't entirely off base either you have to be
- 00:46
wearing some pretty strong rose tinted glasses to expect the global powerhouses [Farmers working]
- 00:51
to simply share with everyone but we're looking for the best answer here the
- 00:54
reason these answers don't best explain the rise of global inequality is because
- 00:58
they don't explain exactly how global inequality became more and more unequal [People serving food]
- 01:03
which brings us to D when some countries have the raw materials needed to produce
- 01:07
goods and others have the capital to manufacture them it inevitably leads to
- 01:11
growing income equality why well let's say we have a new pair of sneakers well [Man lacing up his sneakers]
- 01:16
when they're sold the people with the advanced network that distribute and
- 01:20
sell the sneakers take a big cut and the people with a big fancy factory take a [Man working in a factory]
- 01:24
cut and after that the shareholders who put up all the initial capital take a
- 01:28
nice cut that leaves those who actually grew the cotton for those sneakers with a [Men standing in cotton field]
- 01:32
whole lot of nothing rich keep getting richer and the poor will stay the same
- 01:36
and voilá income inequality and yes this is partly why you want to go to college [Man reading book in library]
- 01:42
and learn to be one of those investors or technology people rather than the
- 01:45
people selling cotton anyway as the old adage
- 01:48
goes it takes money to make sneakers or money it takes money to make money [Piechart of amount that inequality is fair]
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