Wal-Mart Documentary
// May 17th, 2006 // Film, Politics
Recently I watched the documentary Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price by Robert Greenwald. I was already aware of a lot of the issues brought up by this film but I had no idea of the magnatude this business inflicts on our country and the rest of the world for that matter.
Watch the film and never shop at a Wal-Mart again in your life. But I pose these thoughts to whom ever:
Where do you draw the line on using and buying products made in other countries for lower wages? (How’s that coffee tasting?) How many things do you use in one day that have come from other countries. How many people profited off those items? Who profited and was it fair?
If I had to answer all these questions I think I would have to make my own clothes, not use my Apple PowerBook, wear homemade sandals, walk or ride my bike everywhere, and eat only vegetables I grew myself from my own garden.
My point is where do you draw the line? Regardless of your answer this film will get you thinking as it has for me. Watch it.
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The problem with perfect capitalism is that there isn’t “friction”, there isn’t that middleman, so where does the middle class fit in? Only as consumers? You can’t produce goods as cheaply as someone with a lower standard of living… your life is “overhead”.
Lots of people would say that’s unfair.
Then again, it may the fairest system, you get paid for what you produce. Not “who you know”, but “what you do”.
Well money is a big factor but good living and fair wages would be more humaine and do more for humainity.