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                     Social inequality. Social inequality, as described by NSCCA Pressbooks, is a systematic 
inequality based on group membership, class, gender, ethnicity, and other variables that 
structure access to rewards and status. Social inequality in Canada is a surprisingly significant 
issue when viewed from a broader perspective.
Ideally, the quality of wealth in Canada is supposed to be somewhat more equal, with the top 
20% having only about three times as much as the lowest 20% of Canadians. And even then, 
those lowest 20% should have somewhat of some share in that wealth. However, in reality, 
around 90% of Canada's wealth is actually going to these richer 20%. In fact, so much so, to the
point where the biggest CEOs in Canada are making over 200 times more than the average 
worker. How can this be explained? Well, there were two theorists who came up with their own 
theories as to how class relationships work, because a lot of social inequality, whether it's in 
Canada or in other places, can usually be boiled down to class. Now, the one I want to look at is
Karl Marx, who looked at class as a relationship to a means of production. 
He believed that there were two basic classes. There was the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. 
The proletariat were the ones who were the workers, those who sold their labor in exchange for 
wages. The bourgeoisie, on the other hand, were the owners who owned these businesses and 
hired workers to be able to work for them. Despite one being in a lower class than the other, 
Marx's theory proposed that they were heavily self-reliant on each other, as the bourgeoisie 
needs the workers to be able to make a profit, and the proletariat needs the jobs to be able to 
earn a living and to be able to be satisfied. Unfortunately, when it comes to reality with classes, 
it's a lot more diverse than that. 
Sometimes, some minorities are actually getting significantly less than they're even supposed to
be getting in the first place. One easy way to take a look at it is to take a look at Aboriginal 
communities. Nowadays, Aboriginal communities are treated quite fairly, at least relative to how 
they were treated back during the 1900s. 
But even then, during the 1900s, the treatment of Aboriginal peoples was a major problem. 
They were treated as a lower class. When it came to marriage, marriage was a huge problem, 
because depending on who you were and who you married, it would be very different. 
For example, if an Indian man were to marry a white woman, he would no longer be considered 
Indian by right, and as a result, would probably get kicked out of the reserve. However, if an 
Indian woman were to marry a white man, then she would probably face the same treatment 
from the reserve, but would become assimilated into white society as a relationship with a white 
man. As a result, all that time ago, the Indigenous populations were simply not treated with the 
respect or the ability to be able to make their own choices as to where they wanted to be on the 
class ladder, at least not in public. 
Some had to use various means to be able to get employment or to be able even to start their 
own businesses. And while it was successful in the end, they do still need to remember that 
they had to do these in secret because of the stigmas of the time period. Nowadays, things like 
that don't really happen anymore, but social inequality is still a major issue for people in Canada
today. 
 
In fact, not just in Canada, all over the world, social inequality is a thing, and it's something that, 
while it is something that is currently happening, it is still something that can be stopped with 
enough time and preparation. One thing that the Canadian government can do is the social 
spending because social spending was one of the major factors that played into social inequality
in the first place. And if the social spending was increased, then theoretically, the equality will 
also begin to take root, and it'll also begin to make things so that they're just a little bit easier, at 
least for the lower and middle classes in Canada.