Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

The starting point is to imagine every person in the United States lining up for a parade similar to that of the famous Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade held annually in New York City. This parade would be a single file line of citizens arranged in accordance with their annual income. The parade would start with those making the least amount followed by those who make more, viz., the lowest earners in front, and the highest earners in back. The parade would be one hour in length. The income of each person is recognized by that person’s height. Hence, the lowest earners would be shorter than the highest earners. The current median household income in the United States is $53,657, and the average height would be 5 feet 7 inches. For the first 90 seconds of the parade, the lowest income individuals pass. It would be hard to recognize that the parade has even begun at this point, as most of the citizens would be no taller than the fallen autumn leaves blowing in the streets. The least fortunate of all, in the front of the parade, would be invisible as they would actually be negative in height. At the five-minute point, the people begin to appear around the size of a stick of gum. At the eight-minute mark, a uniformity in height begins to take shape where …show more content…
Can it possibly be demonstrated that characteristics such as reli-gion, race, and sexual orientation have no effect on the treatment of people in this grand society? Perhaps a cursory review of history, and something as pretentious as the recent legislation passed in States such as Mississippi, and North Carolina would demonstrate the incoherence of the trite ideology. Nevertheless, the idea of “liberty and justice for all” seems to have been insisted upon as the bedrock of our nation’s founding. Regrettably, as illustrated using the income parade, a real interpretation of the problems of distributive justice in the United States appears far different from that of the old