A new age "corporate world"

As we go more deeper in to the corporate world

"Profit Over People"

          In Profit Over People by Chomsky, he explains how the corporate companies uses a democratic government system as a tool to benefits their common interest. Although there are more interdependent countries than ever before, still those nations are heavily influences by the American corporate companies. As Chomskey explains that the new age of “ neobileralism” that the corporate companies  have so much passion over the free trade because they get what they need from the third world countries such as cheap labor and ability to avoid laws. In the eyes of the world the American corporate companies uses the WTO as a vehicle to expend the American values of free trade. 

In the corporate world

Now a day our nation is run by few invisible 1% elite. These are the people who literally owns more than 40% of the American economy. History has shown us what would be the consequences when people like these become so powerful. It is also obvious that these 1% elite control not only the half of the nation wealth but the government as well. Not long ago Supreme Court had passed a law which allows the corporate to donate money as much as they can during Campinas and it clearly shows us that the government is indirectly corrupted. It is outrageous, throughout the world America is consider as an engine of the democracy and takes examples as a champions of a democracy.   

In oil we trust

     

The main idea which I found from both the Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser and the Resource War by Michael T. Klare was that how over life so much dependent upon oil and technologies. From the food that we eat to the car gasoline we heavily rely on gas and technologies. That is the reason why there are war in many countries like Iraq and Sudan. According to the media or to the politician these people  fights with each other because of the differences in ethnic; if that is the case why the super rich power like America and China are selling weapons to the people in Africa or in the middle east. The United States and other rich countries are being hypocritical to the rest of the world. This cheap oil was then used in the fast food industries. In the United States all most 30% of the oil was used for the manufacturing of the inorganic food and 13% were used in irrigation. The American governments are not serving the common interest for the people but rather for the big corporation like fast food and meat packing industries.

THE REALITY

         In Eric Scholssers’s book fast food nation, he says that instead of feeding grass to the cow the meatpacking industries fed livestock’s. And until the august of 1997 about 75 percent of the cattle in the United States were fed dead cats and dead dogs. It was shock and awe to the see how the meatpacking industries are doing, since living in the democratic county people doesn't know what is in there meat. Yet, the meatpacking industries kept selling to people unless many people were found sick. It is outrageous to hear that the meatpacking industries have been feeding dead animals to the cow.  By that we can see that the meatpacking industries are not concerned about the life of the people but to make profits for themselves. Yet, the government subsidizes to these industries rather than spending money to its own citizens. After reading this chapter I felt like these days the government is not by the people, for the people and to the people but rather by the corporations, for the corporations, and to the corporations. 

STROKING

       

In the book of the fast food nation by Eric Schlosser, says that fast food Company like MC Donald makes their workers emotional devoted to their job by praising and creating a team spirit. Manager who works at fast food chain industries were even train how to win the heart and mind of the workers and it have been very successful because majority of the worker who worked at MC Donald were teenagers who lacks an experience.  Since they hires the people who  lack the experiences doesn't speaks English the managers takes advantage of it and tries to manipulate them by making workers to rely up machines, and build confidants so that they would show up on time and do their best at work. The fast food industries are doing this so they don’t have to rely to the workers. In fact, from the counter to the kitchen they are highly relies on technology. Thus a psychological technique is called ‘STROKING.' The fast food industries have been adopting these ideologies since the beginning of its chain and they have been very successful. 

privatizing revolution

             In mid 1980’s meatpacking industries like ConAgra did everything they could do to eliminate the union. They did it by hiring people who doesn’t speak English and worst many of them even illegal immigrants. They hired these people so they can control over them and they get even very minimum wages. The corporation has become so powerful that they evens threatens the government. In January of 1987, Mike Harper chief executive of the ConAgra asked the newly elected governor of the Nebraska for the tax deductions otherwise he warned the governor that he would move his meatpacking industries to another sates. So, the governor had no other choice but to favor them. By the following few Mike Harper called up all the lawmaker and made a new legislature at his house and for a decade they haven’t paid any tax for the state. Yet, they had the worst record for the labor abuses. Many workers had no proper health insurance and fired who spoke about the forming a union. So, by then we see the reality of the free market.

friday blog: the shock doctrine.

Tenzin Dorjee                                                                                               

Eng 101

Professor: Justin Roger-Cooper

Date: 3-18-2011

Words: 180                               

   According to the article “THE SHOCK DOCTRINE” by Naomi Klein. These days corporate companies control the United States politically and economically. So, when we look at the American government right now these corporation benefits from the constitution because politicians rely on them during campaign and other financial needs. Thus, the politicians and lawmakers are just puppets of the corporate companies.

    In order to win a heart and mind of the people, this giant corporations waits for the right moment to make people believe what they are doing is right, and that is when  natural disasters or crises happens and worst they tries to privatize most of the public system, mainly to destroy Unions because people are in need of help.  Such a tactic famously known as a economic “shock treatment” by Milton Freedmen, who served as a top economic adviser for the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Similarly to the freedman idea, Disney and fast food industries also use their own political philosophy “survival of the fittest” to destroy Unions and to makes people believe only strong survives.

  As we go deeper into the history of the corporate industries, it gets darker and darker and that is the reality of the present democracy of the United States.