Halloween Class

Reading through Toxic Sludge, going to today’s class, everything we have learned, has reinforced my opinion even more. Large corporations control everything today, I can’t even begin to comprehend the amount of connections there are that we don’t even know about. Advertising, government affiliations, the Internet, television, all of these and more are connected, and are exploited by large companies to make their influence even broader. It makes me sick that these companies are allowed to advertise for medicine that may not even do anything. The public needs to be informed about these things, they need to know that they are being taken advantage of. But since most Americans don’t even have past a grade eight education, it would be hard to explain that something from the television lied.
The amount of wealth that these people hold is also disgusting. According to Forbes.com, 5 of the top 10 richest people in the world are board members of Wal-Mart. The worlds 225 richest people have a combined wealth of which only four percent would be needed to provide basic education, healthcare, food and safe water for every person in the world. This type of monopoly of wealth is not fair. If Bill Gates were to give away all his money, that would mean that the entire world would have better education and healthcare. I’m not saying he hasn’t given away money, Bill Gates has actually given the biggest donation in history, $24 Billion to his own foundation. But for such a small amount of people, to have all the money in the world, all the influence, and all the power, is not fair. Humans have always had to deal with societies that have aristocratic tendencies, wealth has pretty much always been in the hands of a small amount of people.