As humans, we have a tendency to lean on each other. One side might lean more on the other, like the poor would lean more on the people wealthier than them for charity. The richer people would get annoyed after some time, and might start to give less and less to the poor. Yes, they don't give much in return, but weren't the wealthy the ones who landed the poor where they are now in the first place? Like the essay said, we drive all day in our nice cars and lounge all night in our houses, and most of us only contribute to the impoverished only when we are asked to pay for taxes. By doing this, we are, in a way, causing death to hundreds of people everyday, and casting many other hundreds into the street. As said in paragraph four, it is not that people don't have enough, but it is that others have too much. The wealthy possess money that could be used to buy a home for others, but do they readily give up that cash to the needy? Most would use that money to buy things they want for themselves, from clothes to fill up their overflowing wardrobes, to that seventh car "our five year old son would need when he's older".

I am not saying that the wealthy are the only ones to blame. The poor could always find jobs and work their way up to a higher class. But I agree, for the most part, with the Worldview essay. The essay has made me look at the world differently, not from the narrow perspective I usually view the world everyday, but I got to glimpse, if only for a moment, the way the author sees it. As told in the last few paragraphs, the responsibility now felt, though charged my guilt, takes form in hope; to re-forge the community into a better place, with the help of rich and poor together.

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Error (if it is an error):

In the first sentence of paragraph five -- The blatant inequality does not completely touch the heart of fundamental human guilt, however.

"the heart of the fundamental human guilt"

If I remember correctly, I though fundamental meant the basis, or the core of something. So if that is true, then wouldn't it be a bit weird if you said, "the heart of the core of human guilt"?

Just in case I'm wrong there's also another mistake:

$100 a bottle of champaine in the fourth paragraph

It's supposed to be a hundred dollars *per* bottle of champaine

but everybody probably caught that didn't day? Oh well