"Who Said Life Was Fair"?
This world is an unfair fairytale . In the documentary " The High Cost of Low Price", Robert Greenwald creates a media video campaign motivating citizens to take action on social issues and Wal-Mart's corporate practices. Some people doesn't realize the issues about how much they get pay as long as they have something in their pockets, while other people propose that it is necessary to promote workers for all the hard work they’ve concluded. In other words, the Wal-Mart corporation is in greed. Moreover, the government enforcing laws for the general public welfare despite interfering with business profits is a way for workers to gain fair wages.
Unfortunately, the work place inequality in a way is ethically significant because it gives employee a heads-up of how unfairly they are paying them and motivation to speak their minds. For example, the Wal-Mart corporation is showing greed towards their employee by cutting up their wages and saving their labor experience. According to Robert Greenwald , " Lee Scott, the CEO of Wal-Mart made $27,207,799 in 2005 when, the average Wal-Mart hourly sales employee made $13,861 annually." Due to researches Wal-Mart is even short on staffed, not because they can't find …show more content…
All of this is really unfair, factory workers are working for a couple of cents a day while the CEO is working out their courage and taking the credit by investing all the profits into his own pocket. According to the documentary " The High Cost of Low Prices", In China, factory workers are told to lie to inspectors about how many days they work: six, when they really work seven days a week. All of this to make less than $3 a day. (Greenwald). Just cause someone is an higher position they shouldn’t take the poor for granted. The government have the rights to step in and put some control into this
This world is an unfair fairytale . In the documentary " The High Cost of Low Price", Robert Greenwald creates a media video campaign motivating citizens to take action on social issues and Wal-Mart's corporate practices. Some people doesn't realize the issues about how much they get pay as long as they have something in their pockets, while other people propose that it is necessary to promote workers for all the hard work they’ve concluded. In other words, the Wal-Mart corporation is in greed. Moreover, the government enforcing laws for the general public welfare despite interfering with business profits is a way for workers to gain fair wages.
Unfortunately, the work place inequality in a way is ethically significant because it gives employee a heads-up of how unfairly they are paying them and motivation to speak their minds. For example, the Wal-Mart corporation is showing greed towards their employee by cutting up their wages and saving their labor experience. According to Robert Greenwald , " Lee Scott, the CEO of Wal-Mart made $27,207,799 in 2005 when, the average Wal-Mart hourly sales employee made $13,861 annually." Due to researches Wal-Mart is even short on staffed, not because they can't find …show more content…
All of this is really unfair, factory workers are working for a couple of cents a day while the CEO is working out their courage and taking the credit by investing all the profits into his own pocket. According to the documentary " The High Cost of Low Prices", In China, factory workers are told to lie to inspectors about how many days they work: six, when they really work seven days a week. All of this to make less than $3 a day. (Greenwald). Just cause someone is an higher position they shouldn’t take the poor for granted. The government have the rights to step in and put some control into this