aztec, Even though globalization is all but a fact I put ?will? because there are some African states that are still resisting
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You could look at it as them giving you better products for a ?cheaper? price or as them being able to make you fell like your getting a deal when in reality all the slave-wage-workers do is cut production costs witch in turn helps corps yield higher profits or balance their bank books. I dont\'t feel the consumer-based economies will last long. We are way too inefficient and the whole idea is ill. People will get sick with all the games these corporations play to get money from use. Look what happens with the music industry when DSL and Peer-to-Peer technology took off.
Reality is consumers are just like addicts. You saw the lines in front of Toys R Us when Playstation hit the streets. When 50 cent (the rap artist) dropped His Get Rich Or Die Trying Record it only took two weeks before everybody I know had his cd and only a month before Mtv had him as host. You every notice that yearn, that happiness you feel when you hear about the next final fantasy release? How all you want to do is live, smell and breathe your product. I slept with my xbox the first night I bought it (didn?t want my bastard ?lil brothers beating DOA3 or playing Halo before I got to take a hit.)
In my mind a crack-head and a consumer are one in the same. Just some of us consumers have a little more since than your average crack-head. Leave it to some corporations and even that won?t matter. You see those McDonald commercials? The ones with all the happy kids crowding around a brightly colored clown. Their smiling from ear to ear while he?s handing out toys, then they cut to an overly ornate cheeseburger that screams eat me. Then years later one out of every four of those same little kids is over weight or obese. Only reason we consumers are overlooking the fact these corps don?t give a damn about the consumer is because we\'re addicted to this stuff and their addicted to the money.
