When I started this semester I was a an activist, but for animal rights and I fought against corporations who commit horrific cruelty to animals. As the semester progressed, I realized that a passion grew inside of me to start fighting for the rights of humans also. I learned so much when I dove deeper into the unjust labor practices of FoxConn. This made me realize that so many other companies follow similar practices and hide these from the public. I am now trying to live a way that doesn’t involve the abuse of others due to the technological products I use. I have been told by colleagues that think my aspirations are crazy and are impossible. I am hoping to one day live in a way that doesn’t hurt others. For now, I am just trying to get involved as much as I can in activism locally.
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“we know everyone who breaks the law, we know when you're doing it. We have GPS in your car, so we know what you're doing.” This was stated by senior Ford executive Jim Farley. This made me think to myself that we one day might not even need a government system if we are controlled by computers. This is quite scary to me and I feel technology is moving way too quickly a lot of the time.
When I saw the article Uber and the lawlessness of 'sharing economy' corporates, I couldn’t help but to think of the current battle I am having with recovering from an Uber car accident that happened on January 18th. I felt the guilt being put on me because I decided to go to the hospital room due to feeling incoherent and having whiplash. I still take rideshare on a frequent basis because I commute to paid gigs a lot and a lot of times parking is tripe compared to what a ride share would be for me and the CTA takes at least 1.5 times longer than the Metra or
“we know everyone who breaks the law, we know when you're doing it. We have GPS in your car, so we know what you're doing.” This was stated by senior Ford executive Jim Farley. This made me think to myself that we one day might not even need a government system if we are controlled by computers. This is quite scary to me and I feel technology is moving way too quickly a lot of the time.
When I saw the article Uber and the lawlessness of 'sharing economy' corporates, I couldn’t help but to think of the current battle I am having with recovering from an Uber car accident that happened on January 18th. I felt the guilt being put on me because I decided to go to the hospital room due to feeling incoherent and having whiplash. I still take rideshare on a frequent basis because I commute to paid gigs a lot and a lot of times parking is tripe compared to what a ride share would be for me and the CTA takes at least 1.5 times longer than the Metra or