This gap is a very real thing. Poverty is a reality that exists for most and effects them every single, waking day of their lives. It is a reality in which children die because their parents could not afford penicillin. People live in small, one-room shacks in groups, of ten with no running water and little food. A bathroom for them is a large hole in the ground.
Poverty is a real struggle that s purpose is to merely survive.
This type of poverty did not always exist. Before the Industrial Revolution, everyone had to survive and hold their own. Poverty was not anything near what it has become today. This was the year 1850. This type of gap is enormous and inexcusable.