According to cells online.com (n.d.), “Consumer demand quickly outstripped the cellular phone system's 1982 standards, by 1987, cellular phone subscribers exceeded one million, and the airways were crowded.” In 1982 cell phones were mostly owned by wealthy individuals or upper echelon business owners. They were considered a status symbol and since the power needed for them was demanding, they mostly were installed in cars they were not the cell phones of 2008. Over the last 25 years as mobile phones progressed they started to fall in pricing and size, original phones were large and expensive and out of the reach of most consumers. According to PCWorld a study suggested Shah (2007), “Cell phone ownership showed a dramatic increase globally, Wike said. In 2007, 81 percent of the U.S. population owned a cell phone, a 20 percent increase compared to 2002.” In a current figures according to MSNBC Sullivan (2008), “The cell phone industry, ... has some 137 million paying customers in the United States…” The growth for phone ownership is off the charts and along with the enormous sales of the units, technology has kept pace.
("Store Wars," n.d., Big store, business practices section, para. 1).The low prices may be great for the economy, but that's about all walmart is doing for America. For people who work at Walmart, in order to make ends meet, they usually have to work at two different jobs. Their significant other usually has to work, too. Not enough money and too much stress lowers the quality of life that people have, and their standards of living also drop, as they are forced to get by with cheap, low-quality items (Nickels, McHugh & McHugh, 2010).
Stores like Apple, or Best Buy are some of the biggest suppliers of the technology we use daily, whether it be phones, iPods or TVs. Peter Singer believes that it is immoral to use money on non-essential items like these, instead of donating to charity. The problem with this is that if everyone stopped buying items from Apple or Best Buy, they would quickly begin to go out of business. Technology is not the only luxury item though, according to Singer, this also includes “Going out to nice restaurants, buying new clothes,....., vacationing at beach resorts-” (Singer). Our economy is based on consumer production and if the population discontinued their use of places like these, our entire economy would go down the drain, probably taking other countries down with us.
CLUB IT, PART 2 ANGELA MOSIER XBIS/219 NOVEMBER 18, 2012 INSTRUCTOR – CONCHITA GARNETT After investigating, I have identified three business problems in terms of its resources, supply chain and customers. While Club It’s customers are mostly Net generation and Millennial, whom regularly use mobile technologies, the dial-up internet service is slow and not effective. The service allows connection to the internet via telephone. While dial- up connections are a considerably less expensive alternative to high speed connections, they are very extremely slow. It may appear that Club IT is saving money by not paying for a higher speed connection, it is likely that the savings are not as significant as they may think.
The collapse of the housing market and unemployment caused the most damage. Between 1991 to 1992 unemployment had gone back up to 2.6 million. Negative equity meant home owner were paying mortgages far higher than their homes were worth. Many people could simply not keep up with the increased prices and resulted in them losing their homes due to the bank repossessing them. The recession hit close to home for the Tories, effecting the middle class not just the working class of the industrial north.
Many people argue that texting or talking does not affect their driving. They truly believe they are good enough at multitasking that using their phone while driving will not influence their performance. This, however, is a common misconception. Recent studies have proven that it is hardly even possible to multitask at using a phone while driving. In fact, only about two percent of drivers can successfully multitask.
(Muchmore, 2012) “Lowering PC software piracy by 10 points over four years would create 600,000 additional new jobs worldwide.” (PC SOFTWARE PIRACY POSES CHALLENGES TO CYBER SECURITY, 2009) KIDDER’S NINE STEPS – Individual vs. Community Step 1 – Recognize that there is a moral issue. Although the piracy rates in the current years have slowly decreased, nearly 42% of all software is pirated throughout the world causing fewer IT jobs. Because of those reasons, software piracy is a moral issue. Step 2 - Determine the actor (whose moral issue is it?). The moral issue is the individuals because the person’s actions are not ethical.
In the PBS feature film it goes on to explain how America is in the midst of a demographic shift in which we are seeing marginalization of white people and reform in favor of the Democratic party. The 2012 Presidential Election was adversely favored towards Barack Obama and the Democratic party, the majority reason being a strong influx of non-white voters, more than in any previous elections. The question lies on voters balloting for Obama but black unemployment has risen to double digits since the President has took office. As well as total unemployment being at a high, the national debt is at sixteen trillion dollars. Race in todays politics is a taboo topic, white people can not unite in fear of being labeled as racial superioritists and a black president who marks african american on the national census but campaigns for whites and spanish americans.
Few saw this devastation coming. The Mortgage Foreclosure Crisis was arguably the most significant for the economy since the Great Depression. It forced millions to lose everything they have and have to live in lower standards than ever before. Criminal acts have skyrocketed due to desperate Americans having nowhere else to turn to but illegal lifestyles. The Mortgage Foreclosure Crisis has set back our economy and the lifestyle of the average American has changed astonishingly
The recession of 2007 and 2009 has affected everyone, but mostly middle class people are the ones who are hit the hardest when it comes to economic troubles. Oil prices and inflation of prices in other markets had affected the middle class’ confidence in product consumption. With less private spending, an economy cannot thrive. That is why it was important that the tax cuts were issued to help increase this spending. If people spend more then more jobs are created and business investments are made to further help increase total GDP.