Poverty and its ugly sibling - social inequality

Social inequality is broadly defined as the unequal conditions and provisions that are embedded within the distribution of socio-economic classes in any society. The single most pervasive symptom of social inequality is the formation of entrenched stigmatisation and pre-conceived notions of poverty being the outcome of 'laziness' and mere meritocratic incompetence, with little regard for the existence of congenital economic advantages or the lack of.