Consumerism versus Sustainability.
I would like to focus on Capitalism witch promotes consumerism instead of Sustainability.
The Developed countries and its population are focused in acquiring more power and consume more than they need, awhile the sub developed countries are staying under and only serves as oil to keep this big and unfair machine running "smoothly". The quotations are to contradict how smooth it actually is, since only that small percentage of the world population benefits from the great wonders of globalization, awhile the unfortunate rest suffer from the negative side effects.
Poorly governance administartion, greed, bad policies and corruption uses capitalism to self harm it own population. I am gonna use the example …show more content…
S.; I am talking about Zara, a fashion retail company based out of Spain, which has 1,540 stores around the globe. In 2011, Zara was accused of have used migrant laborer in sweatshop conditions to make garments for the Spanish Company through a contractor in São Paulo, Brazil. "The Brazilian government listed 52 charges against Inditex, Zara 's parent company, after it "rescued" 15 workers from a factory sub-contracted by AHA, the company responsible for 90% of Zara 's Brazilian production. Fourteen of the workers were Bolivians and one was from Peru. One was 14. One Bolivian told the TV show A Liga that the labour component of a pair of Zara jeans selling at $126 (£76) was $1.14, which was divided between the seven people involved in the process. The workers earned between $156 and $290 a month. The minimum wage in Brazil is $344 a month."[1] This is an classic example of how unfair things are, equality and capitalism are far from working hand in hand, not only the minimum wages of the country is unacceptable, but this …show more content…
While those who have less and less to consuming are dying by the thousands because the lack of equality and proper resource
I would like to focus on Capitalism witch promotes consumerism instead of Sustainability.
The Developed countries and its population are focused in acquiring more power and consume more than they need, awhile the sub developed countries are staying under and only serves as oil to keep this big and unfair machine running "smoothly". The quotations are to contradict how smooth it actually is, since only that small percentage of the world population benefits from the great wonders of globalization, awhile the unfortunate rest suffer from the negative side effects.
Poorly governance administartion, greed, bad policies and corruption uses capitalism to self harm it own population. I am gonna use the example …show more content…
S.; I am talking about Zara, a fashion retail company based out of Spain, which has 1,540 stores around the globe. In 2011, Zara was accused of have used migrant laborer in sweatshop conditions to make garments for the Spanish Company through a contractor in São Paulo, Brazil. "The Brazilian government listed 52 charges against Inditex, Zara 's parent company, after it "rescued" 15 workers from a factory sub-contracted by AHA, the company responsible for 90% of Zara 's Brazilian production. Fourteen of the workers were Bolivians and one was from Peru. One was 14. One Bolivian told the TV show A Liga that the labour component of a pair of Zara jeans selling at $126 (£76) was $1.14, which was divided between the seven people involved in the process. The workers earned between $156 and $290 a month. The minimum wage in Brazil is $344 a month."[1] This is an classic example of how unfair things are, equality and capitalism are far from working hand in hand, not only the minimum wages of the country is unacceptable, but this …show more content…
While those who have less and less to consuming are dying by the thousands because the lack of equality and proper resource