Wal-Mart does not care about the American economy because they are thriving the way the economy is now, so American citizens have to stand up for their communities. According to the book, How Walmart is destroying America and what you can do about it, when you are a huge rich company and all you want to do is get huger and richer, it turns out a lot of smaller, poorer people have to get hurt in the process. Wal-Mart with all its size and power, could hurt people or help them in a lot of situations. Which do you think it normally chooses to do (Bill Quinn 102)? The answer for so many years has obviously been hurt people.
Dawn Chadwell March 23, 2015 English 102 Professor Scott Overseas Outsourcing The discussion regarding U.S companies outsourcing internationally to countries such as India, Pakistan, Philippines, China and dozens more is highly controversial. What a lot of people don’t know is that outsourcing is a much older practice. Merchant companies or large businesses can cut their material cost and employee labor considerably by outsourcing. This has made the big corporations close their factories in the U.S and move them overseas to undeveloped countries. The citizens of these countries will work for lower wages, in dangerous conditions and have fewer restrictions as far as labor rights.
Children growing up in poverty face many disadvantages such as unhealthy levels of stress making it near impossible to successfully complete college, thus making it harder to escape their surroundings. The poverty rates in some European countries are much lower than in the United States because of programs they have put into place to help the poor and unlucky, leading one to think the government should once again re-declare the war on poverty. Krugman’s article not only shows percentages he also lets his readers know what the findings were from scientific studies. Living in the conditions of poverty is stressful for anyone, much less children. I see the effects that poverty has on many people every day, and always think one day that could be me.
He uses logos to point out our moral responsibility to make sure workers receive fair compensation and sanitary working conditions. He uses pathos when describing unsanitary conditions, child labor, and unfair worker compensation. He states his thesis in the fifth paragraph after he describes the poor working conditions created by corporations whose sole interest is increasing profits. He organizes his argument by first describing the consumers and then describing sweatshops. The main argument against increasing the wages of these workers is that it will have a negative impact on the developing world because workers will lose their jobs.
Human health alone is not the full extent of the problems related to genetically engineered foods. The effects that the pesticides have on our environment are also a major concern. Dangerous toxins are excreted into our water supply. That alone should be enough to raise some eyebrows, but there’s still even more. Large companies have totally neglected any responsibility to what is best for the common good, and have greedily taken advantage of our capitalist country to increase their own personal wealth at the expense of others.
An example of this is Nike in Vietnam, in 2005 they were accused of running sweatshops and massively underpaying their workers, they were also accused of using children to also work in the factories. Many human rights pressure groups believe that this is inhumane and that workers should be given higher pay and better working conditions, they also believe it is wrong for children to be working in such an adult environment. However, you could argue that even though workers may get underpaid and this is at the fault of multinational corporations like Nike, without multinational corporations that outsource factories to LEDC these people may not have a job in the first place and therefore have no money. Also some working conditions may be poor, but many multinational corporations invest large amounts of money into the local area, this improves the living conditions for the workers, due to this many corporations may then not have the money to improve the working conditions. You could argue that if local governments invested more money in local living conditions, multinational corporations then wouldn’t have to and would therefore have the money to improve working
That makes a lot of sense after reading Kozol’s text. But what governments need to realize is that without education, communities, even surrounded, by big corporations will not be able to prepare them for the jobs these organizations offer. This is exactly what the people from East Saint Louis is experiencing, they have become the dumpster of these big chemical corporations. The heath reality that they live in is unbelievable, I honestly felt like I was reading a report about a Latin American nation, and I like the way that Kozol points out that sewerage systems are what differentiates the U.S. from the third world. I’d like to point out that the current U.S. newborn mortality of 7 out of 1,000 births would not apply for the community that lives surrounded by continuous exposure to sewerage
With more than 2.3 million people locked away in our prisons, the system under which these are run is a major concern of society. A well-functioning incarceration system with motives of keeping citizens safe is key to maintaining peace and order in society. Correspondingly, a nation with a malfunctioning executive branch driven solely by economic greed is bound to fail the challenges of maintaining a safe and favorable environment. This is the state in which our nation’s prison system lies, in the hands of entrepreneurs whose only incentive is profit. The incarceration system in the United States has inflicted much damage on societal well-being, caused by privatization of prisons, war on drugs, and overcrowding of prison cells.
When you walk into a soup kitchen and face poverty, you’re probably among people like yourself, poor. A scarce amount of money in your pocket and facing bad, sometimes serious financial issues. Unlike stylish clothing that runs at high prices now a days, aged clothing that is badly tattered is the only thing surrounding one’s body. The food you buy there isn’t very satisfying and will certainly not fill an empty stomach. If it’s a bad eating place, why do so many people in poverty eat there?
The poorest nations on Earth are usually categorised by the term LDC, meaning ‘Least Developed Country.’ These low levels of development make it harder for the county to develop any further. Sierra Leone is an example of an LDC, and is at the bottom of the UN’s league for human development. Sierra Leone has a high level of dependency on its raw materials for income, Diamonds and Iron ore are highly sought after and the main consumers of these products are the industrialising and high level consumption nations such as China and the U.S. The issue is that these products are mined and manufactured by foreign companies. If the LEDC had the high enough levels of development it could educate it population and these profit providing process could be taxed and boost the economy of the LDC to allow such infrastructure to grow.