Saturday, November 9, 2013

Madness-corporate America-home of the free?

     We can start by thinking about what the world would really be like if there was no such thing as greed. No such thing as stomping on another human being through financial stronghold or political prowess. It is hard to imagine. And honestly to reduce confusion, we will say this "a country without greed", because to say the world, is too much.
       In the beginning, the country would be perfect if all of a sudden, in one day, the country would immediately become a utopia. It would not last because the automatic greed of Americans would set in! :) We would all perfect the art of con. Through having no greed, evolving out of that, the new form of conquering others and things, would become conning using extreme with more than the attitude of greed. It would be worse because we have all been taught for so long to be greedy-It is not in the direct lessons of our nation, throughout our lives, yet in the mass media, politics, economy, Hollywood-celebrity obsession, obsession with belongings and things. 
     People are striving to reach an unreachable goal sometimes. Striving to become what the middle class used to be. Striving to be come that yet the middle class can't even reach that goal. The middle class can't even be what the middle class used to be. I am not a hopeless person but a person who sees things for what they are and makes a call. I am not in any position where I make any real decisions that will change anything yet I am in a position to express disappointment in those who claim to be our role models, our business pioneers, our car manufacturers, the very big names we use and spend money on and speak about are the very names which use psychological consumerism to make their own profit. That is not good business practice. I am forced to shop at a store that I feel deep down contributed first hand in destroying the small businesses in my community. I am forced to buy my medicine, clothes, shoes, toiletries, and food at a store that I feel practices business on the brink of fraud and lies. 
     I did not step foot in this store for 4 months in 2012. My best friend tricked me to go in. She said oh I have to go to the store. I desperately needed to go to the store. So I had to do it and I haven't stopped going back since. My 10 year old daughter can see the basic human rights violations that this corporation/company commits. That's pretty sad. Then I am forced to shop there. We are all force to shop and eat at places that pay poverty wages. So in a way, we are contributing to the madness that has evolved into being corporate America. period. 

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