: : And although there is plenty of exploitation, US workers don't have
: : much to complain about.: That is certainly correct. Its fascinating to see how organized labor has gone from "Good Jobs at Good Wages" to demanding that the United Parcel Service subsidize pension funds for non-UPS workers. The unions are now more corrupt than the corporations they irk.
You are probably at a management level somewhere inculcating free market doctrine which is synonymous with climbing up the corporate ladder and there's some of us who feel and know through institutional analysis that that multinational corporations pull the strings of government.If unions are more corrupt than corporations I guess we can discount the millions of victims of US foreign policy who have suffered so much due to pressure from multinationals who encourage
suppression of basic human rights globally.I don't know of any unions (corrupt or otherwise) who have built up such a staggering pile of dead bodies.Then again that may not qualify as corruption and neither is the
lack of media coverage concerning the role of multinational corporations in massacres,etc.
: : I just feel that as a society, we have put all our eggs in one
: : basket, only valuing what is profitable, really.
: Of course. Advertising inundates us, because corporations want us to purchase their wares. Were it not for advertising, we wouldn't know where to find the products that we need or want. It's relatively easy to escape advertising, if that is what you desire.
That may be harder than you think. The advertising industry is part and parcel of thought control in a democratic society. Recent studies have shown the harm that advertising has done to people in
the form of commercials and how our lives are shaped.
: We can't say that something is wrong simply because the masses enjoy it. Lurking beneath your remarks is an inherent distrust of the decision-making processes of the American public.
I would say that what lurks below the surface is an inherent distrust
of the decision-making processes of government and corporate media.
: Aren't you pleased that America is so prosperous that many citizens can afford to purchase "what they don't need" with discretionery income?
At what cost may I add? With such a small proportion of the world's
population consuming so much of the natural resources on this planet
I don't feel that future generations of Americans are going to be so pleased that Americans in this day and age went on a gluttony rampage and left such a mess that will take a lot longer to clean up than the current binge of mass consumerism.There's nothing to pleased about that.
