Sunday, November 27, 2011

The Story of Stuff

After watching the video, the most surprising fact was the part about how breast milk is really toxic, causing babies to drink and digest toxins. If that's the case, we need to do something fast to prevent babies from drinking toxic breast milk but I thought the woman exaggerated a little bit when she discussed the milk. I believe she also exaggerated when she was talking about corporations making products as breakable as they can so consumers have to buy new products every year or two. While this is true to a certain extent, some companies do try to make durable products that last a long time. Black Friday is extremely bad for everyone except the consumers and the company owners. The people working in production factories get paid less for more hours and the store workers share the hours with more people, decreasing their pay check.

2 comments:

Dylan Hanson said...

I don't understand what you where trying to say when you said that black Friday is extremely bad for everyone except for the company owners and the consumers because the consumers and company owners make up the entire population. 99%= the consumers and the company owners=the 1 %.

Ben Luke said...

I agree that it seems like the lady was exaggerating. It seemed like she was really just trying to scare people into change. Fear is a great motivator. But I also disagree with what you said about Black Friday. Black Friday isn't the one factor making people make less money, it is the businesses in general. Black Friday just happens to be one day of big sales.