What is the definition of profligacy

1. Reckless extravagance or wastefulness in the use of resource.

Example:

"the government returned to fiscal profligacy."

OR

2. Licentious or dissolute behavior.

Example:

"The emperor's bad profligacy."

The state government should have intervened and regulated the conditions of the tenements in New York, as a way of promoting social equality and a good quality of life for any individual, in addition to preventing situations of crime and violence.

Explanation:

The Gilded Age was a time when the USA saw a great economic growth, mainly in the north of the country where the big industries were established.

As wages in the United States were much higher than wages in Europe, the United States began to receive numerous foreigners who immigrated to the country in search of work and a better quality of life. However, these people were highly exploited and subjected to inhospitable environments, the tenements.

The tenements were environments of extreme poverty, violence and precarious sanitary and structural conditions. This, in addition to promoting a terrible quality of life, left the city with a dangerous and ugly image.

The New York state government should have intervened and regulated the tenements, since it is the state government's obligation to promote and guarantee the safety and good quality of social life for residents of its region.