Most Americans do not become killers to make it up the ladder or to hold on to what hey have, but the traditional restraints on naked self-aggrandizement seem weaker-and the insatiability greater” (Derber, p. 14). In my head while reading this, I was like “Oh!!! Now it really does make sense! And it’s true.” I mean, who wouldn’t want to do that? Take the easier route to get more money.
The money being used to make pennies could be made for other, more useful, things such as buying supplies for schools or helping the homeless. With the cost of penny making going up, the price of everything else has gone up along with it. Because of the growing and evolving economy, no longer does something cost a penny (Source C). Due to the inconvenience, most cashiers become frustrated when someone tries to pay for something with pennies. Although, by eliminating the penny, prices would either have to rounded up or down, but this could be a “win-win” for both the consumer and the corporate businesses.
Most of the time the prices are higher than the rest of the other companies for product, but Zappos offers their customers a different experience. Zappos is able to maximize profits in this market because this company figured out how to dominate with their morals they have created. Zappos focused on how to provide wowing services to online customers. This is a company that knows they have to constantly change and embrace it. Zappos owners wanted his company to be fun and weird, making sure to stay adventurous with an open mind.
Their interest is to see the profit they make increasing and the value that the business has rising. Like other stakeholders they want to business to have a good reputation and to grow. Pressure groups the business on making decisions which help defend the environment e.g. Green peace and friends of the world. Environment concerns are important for pressure groups so they try brought onto the business and also protest against the businesses.
The greed that people have is one of the themes in The Devil and Tom Walker. People are willing to wage just about anything to make quick, easy, money. Back then, not a lot of people had money so it was like a treasure everyone envied. Even though in today’s society we like to say, “Money isn’t everything” we all know it’s a great proportion of everything. If we start looking toward romantic and transcendentalist ideas maybe that will change though I highly doubt it.
There was only a simple law, and that was to not read books as well as think, making “the mind drink less and less.” This doesn’t seem much of a sacrifice because society was filled with far more excitement than literature could offer. Meanwhile, new technology helped people do everyday chores and made life simpler, leaving more time for fun. Like Beatty said, “Life is immediate, the job counts, and pleasure lies all about after work.” Entertainment ruled their society. The parlor walls seem like a god compared to our TVs. The seashell radios are convenience at its best.
In most cases the side who is more powerful will win the war. Wealth is important but not as much. It helps to be wealthy because you are able to afford better weapons and put more into newer technology, but if you don't know how to use the new technology is doesn't make that much of a difference if your wealthy or not. In this book we can tell the side that My Luck is fighting for is not wealthy and has very little power. We can see examples of this when he is always pillaging for food and ammo.
Pick the three (3) values you feel the authors of our textbook were most inaccurate about in the chapter describing the current American values. Justify your answers. In regards to this book the author seems inaccurate when it comes to hard work/leisure, limited/extended family and tradition/change. To me the author seem inaccurate with his explanations when it comes to the area of hard work/leisure because Americans love to relax, they love vacations but like it is many cannot afford this because of their income level. It is clear that many of them work not because they are hard working by nature but because they have bills that are more than what they make, so many are bound to do more than two jobs just to meet up, and this will eventually goes to statistics as hard working but it is not, it is working to make ends meet.
Without any actors, athletes, or musicians the world would be a boring place because America is driven by entertainment. So there for, human capital value pays athletes. Undoubtedly, professional athletes deserve their money, but that doesn’t mean other professions do not deserve to be paid just as much. Athletes earn their money in different ways. Teachers, doctors, cops, and other beneficial careers get paid from our tax dollars; whereas our sports players get a small portion of our taxes and to top it off money from spendy fans.
Although many average people are very thankful that the wealthy taxpayers pay more, it is also evident that wealthy taxpayers tend to whine when faced with increased tax brackets. But chances are they received their education at a lot lower price than students today are facing. Chances are that they have secure jobs that allow them to be unaware of the current economy’s hardships. Chances are that they were lucky enough to accumulate their wealth during times when it was much easier to build up their wealth. They happened to be in the right place at the right time.