It is ridiculous how some of these big organizations have all of these rights to do what ever they want to do because they have so much power. It is unfair for the smaller independent businesses to have a say when all of these big companies can basically take them over because of how they can make cheaper products and can produce more bulk than smaller companies. This could be shown through a lesson in my business class. More than 90% of the businesses in the United States are small businesses yet over 90% of the revenue goes to these big corporations. This just helps demonstrates how powerful theses big corporations are.
This helps brings me to my attention about a significant event that took place in Seattle, Washington. There was a meeting with the leaders of the World Trade Organization because they do is “protect is business and growth, not people and the environment, with an underlying assumption that the wealthier a country becomes, the better it is able to protect its people and the environment” (121). There were 150,000 protesters protesting how these big corporations are bad. These protesters are important because they are just regular citizens and they use the nonviolent protesting principles from Gandhi. They held their ground in front of the police, while dealing with pepper spray, tear gas, and riot batons. When protesters needed medical attention, new protesters filled in. it is just ridiculous how these big companies deal with people that are right.
This is important to look back from history because this helps symbolize how these big corporations just use violence as a method to deal with their unsustainable flaws. They do not know how to deal with people that are right so that they instead use tear gas, pepper spray and riot batons to deal with protesters instead of doing the right thing and trying to hear what they have to say. The problem is that they do not want to change; these big corporations just want more money. In order for a more sustainable world, we need to support local businesses and our local economies. It might be expensive at first, but when more and more people start doing it, the price will eventually go down.
Here is a city that uses local living economy that I just happen to find recently
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M__BN7S5Xpw
Hi Gabe,
ReplyDeleteThe threat of lage corporations is very significant to me as well. Just learning about how they control socitey is surprising. I even remember reading about how they can take control over the media. Overall you did really good job on the post.
Gabe,
ReplyDeleteThis is a good discussion you plucked from the reading. I think it's interesting that Americans don't always think of larger corporations as bad since we are so accustomed to having them around. As you were getting at, if you can get passed the price, local products are better for you and the place your living. I think more people would buy local if they were aware of the benefits. People are raised on Walmart and Costco so they don't even think of any other option when they run out of milk. Good thoughts.