As soon as I bought the book, The Amoral Elephant, the first thing that caught my attention was the title. Tabb defines his notion of what an amoral elephant means, which made a lot of sense to me. The elephant is capitalism. One individual puts his arms around a leg and says it is a tree trunk. Another leans against his body and says, “the wall of this old fortress is strong and thick.” Another grabs the tail and considers it a strong rope. Another feels, the ear and recognizes it as a “giant leaf of a jungle plant.” “Each of them is confident that he understands the totality from the local experiential information they have obtained. However, the one riding on top of the elephant has a different experience and of course mentality from those who are beneath. “The elephant itself is amoral.
IT IS TRUE…the RICH KEEPS GETTING RICHER and THE POOR KEEPS GETTING POORER. When factors create the increasing markets, the need for exploitation is unquestionable in order to stay in this race of success and dominance by using cheap labor. Those individuals working in sweat shops have no sense of investments or financial upward mobility considering their wages. Those in charge and those making the rules are the ones benefiting from the whole thing. And those in the middle are almost obligated to deal with the changes in our global market economy. According the book, “the riches 10 percent of American families received 85 percent of the three trillion-plus dollars increase in stock market valuation between 1989 and 1997.” That was back then. Do you still think that 10 percent is still receiving most of the wealth? Of course, according factual evidence most of the world lives on $2 dollars a day and it takes MONEY to MAKE MONEY! SO yes that same 10 percent is still getting more and more; a result of GLOBALIZATION!
IT IS TRUE…the RICH KEEPS GETTING RICHER and THE POOR KEEPS GETTING POORER. When factors create the increasing markets, the need for exploitation is unquestionable in order to stay in this race of success and dominance by using cheap labor. Those individuals working in sweat shops have no sense of investments or financial upward mobility considering their wages. Those in charge and those making the rules are the ones benefiting from the whole thing. And those in the middle are almost obligated to deal with the changes in our global market economy. According the book, “the riches 10 percent of American families received 85 percent of the three trillion-plus dollars increase in stock market valuation between 1989 and 1997.” That was back then. Do you still think that 10 percent is still receiving most of the wealth? Of course, according factual evidence most of the world lives on $2 dollars a day and it takes MONEY to MAKE MONEY! SO yes that same 10 percent is still getting more and more; a result of GLOBALIZATION!
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I spent much of last year visiting garment factories and hanging with the workers. I learned that the garment industry isn't as simple as sweatshops are bad or sweatshops are good. The workers sacrifice to have the jobs and to call them sweatshops would be to belittle their efforts. They should be treated better, but whose fault is it? The brands', the factories', the consumers', the middle men? There isn't an answer. It's all of our problems.
The garment industry brings hope and despair. So does globalization. At least that's my take from the underbelly of the elephant.
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