As the Indian Farmer Ram Prakesh, I believe that my social class’s resolution did not go over very well with the other classes. If I have to take only one thing from the Global Conference, I would take that fact that sometimes different social classes cannot agree on certain topics. For instance, when it came to our resolution, the ruling elites and merchants simply refused to accept it because it cost them money. The resolution dealt with the tax situation, in that the lower class was overly taxed in order to compensate for the fact that the upper classes were not taxed. Our resolution put out the idea of an income tax, that is, every class is taxed equally, and by a percentage of their income. Each class would end up paying virtually the same thing, relatively speaking. In this way, the lower classes might be able to pull themselves together from the aftermath of the crippling economic situation the industrial revolution brought about.
The main problem with our resolution, it seemed, was the fact that it took money from the upper class. Old habits die hard, so to speak, in that the upper classes had never before been taxed a significant amount of money, and they were reluctant to make a change. Our resolution was doomed to fail from the beginning, I believe, because it did indeed put forth the idea of a significant change, and since the upper class wields all of the power, we could do nothing about their reluctance. It did seem that the other lower classes, however, agreed with our resolution. In the real world, it might have actually been passed because there were much more members of the lower class than there were of the high classes, so we might have been able to win by sheer numbers alone.
As myself and not my character, I think that it was interesting to see how the different classes interacted. The concept that stood out to me the most was that of the fact that some social classes would not agree on certain topics, like that of my resolution. It appeared that many of the classes put forth very good ideas, but the customs of the time that were uniform around the world, like the upper class’s evasion of tax and the lack of women’s rights were destined to prevail. We were putting too much of a 21st century spin to our resolutions, and that is why some did not work out as planned.
Global Conference Personal Response
As the Indian Farmer Ram Prakesh, I believe that my social class’s resolution did not go over very well with the other classes. If I have to take only one thing from the Global Conference, I would take that fact that sometimes different social classes cannot agree on certain topics. For instance, when it came to our resolution, the ruling elites and merchants simply refused to accept it because it cost them money. The resolution dealt with the tax situation, in that the lower class was overly taxed in order to compensate for the fact that the upper classes were not taxed. Our resolution put out the idea of an income tax, that is, every class is taxed equally, and by a percentage of their income. Each class would end up paying virtually the same thing, relatively speaking. In this way, the lower classes might be able to pull themselves together from the aftermath of the crippling economic situation the industrial revolution brought about.
The main problem with our resolution, it seemed, was the fact that it took money from the upper class. Old habits die hard, so to speak, in that the upper classes had never before been taxed a significant amount of money, and they were reluctant to make a change. Our resolution was doomed to fail from the beginning, I believe, because it did indeed put forth the idea of a significant change, and since the upper class wields all of the power, we could do nothing about their reluctance. It did seem that the other lower classes, however, agreed with our resolution. In the real world, it might have actually been passed because there were much more members of the lower class than there were of the high classes, so we might have been able to win by sheer numbers alone.
As myself and not my character, I think that it was interesting to see how the different classes interacted. The concept that stood out to me the most was that of the fact that some social classes would not agree on certain topics, like that of my resolution. It appeared that many of the classes put forth very good ideas, but the customs of the time that were uniform around the world, like the upper class’s evasion of tax and the lack of women’s rights were destined to prevail. We were putting too much of a 21st century spin to our resolutions, and that is why some did not work out as planned.