Introduction
Image yourself in a world where you’re safe, the things you do at work are improving the future, you get time to spend with your family and relax, your bills are manageable, and things like the buses are free. If you thought a moment like this was unlikely, then you are much like the rest of the world.
We, as a society, have moved from basic needs based things into a beyond basic needs and then some society. “The idea of consumption is a dominant force in most of the world’s cultures, and for many humans this consumption is not simply the necessities, but the consumption and accumulation of as much as possible” (Michael Cruit, Pat Lauderdale,39) We need bigger homes or more homes, clothes that are designed for “the rich by …show more content…
Consumerism is economically manifested in the chronic purchasing of new goods and services. Little attention is being given to where they come from, how long will it last, is it really a true need, to their true need, durability, and if the product has an environmental consequence from the point of it being manufactured to the point of disposal. I picked a few things to focus on a little more, some of which were focused on in the book and some that we narrowly touched base …show more content…
In these factories the vast majority of employees are usually young women between the age of fourteen and twenty-five. Some children are forced to work.Various are denied normal childhoods. A few are confined and beaten and must continue working through the pain. They can even be abducted and forced into the workforce. I watched a video in one of my classes last semester about a little girl in India who was about 11 or 12 and she was making bracelets for a couple cents each day. She worked until she couldn’t feel her fingertips and had burns on her hands afterwards she would continue to work. Complaining very little about the pain and the lack of feeling. She was lucky though, because her employer was her parents and they allowed her a small break time to play with her siblings. Many children in third world countries are taking on a role that an adult should be doing because small hands make for faster
Image yourself in a world where you’re safe, the things you do at work are improving the future, you get time to spend with your family and relax, your bills are manageable, and things like the buses are free. If you thought a moment like this was unlikely, then you are much like the rest of the world.
We, as a society, have moved from basic needs based things into a beyond basic needs and then some society. “The idea of consumption is a dominant force in most of the world’s cultures, and for many humans this consumption is not simply the necessities, but the consumption and accumulation of as much as possible” (Michael Cruit, Pat Lauderdale,39) We need bigger homes or more homes, clothes that are designed for “the rich by …show more content…
Consumerism is economically manifested in the chronic purchasing of new goods and services. Little attention is being given to where they come from, how long will it last, is it really a true need, to their true need, durability, and if the product has an environmental consequence from the point of it being manufactured to the point of disposal. I picked a few things to focus on a little more, some of which were focused on in the book and some that we narrowly touched base …show more content…
In these factories the vast majority of employees are usually young women between the age of fourteen and twenty-five. Some children are forced to work.Various are denied normal childhoods. A few are confined and beaten and must continue working through the pain. They can even be abducted and forced into the workforce. I watched a video in one of my classes last semester about a little girl in India who was about 11 or 12 and she was making bracelets for a couple cents each day. She worked until she couldn’t feel her fingertips and had burns on her hands afterwards she would continue to work. Complaining very little about the pain and the lack of feeling. She was lucky though, because her employer was her parents and they allowed her a small break time to play with her siblings. Many children in third world countries are taking on a role that an adult should be doing because small hands make for faster