The following image shows that the world's wealth is owned by a few people. Which options are more appropriate in the context of democracy?

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It is reasonable to expect democracies to reduce economic disparities.

In a democracy, all citizens have a share of wealth and lead a better life.

Democracy leads to a just distribution of goods and opportunities.

Democracy does not appear to be very successful in reducing economic inequalities.

answer is D.

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The above image represents that democracy does not appear to be very successful in reducing economic inequalities.
It is a valid criticism of modern-day liberal democracies. The cartoon shows that a poor man, who represents half the population of the world, has a very small slice of the world's income, whereas the other person, who represents the top 2% of the world's population, enjoys a very large part of this income. Income inequality across the world has been increasing rapidly in the past few decades, with fewer and fewer people controlling more and more economic resources of the world.

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