From history to economics: what do companies do to people?

Margret 2022-08-10 22:11:58

Mark has been working on an economic documentary for a long time, but he did not expect that in fact, it involves a lot of historical content.

Historical content

The documentary explains the characteristics of a group of people (people engaged in business) who set up a business, and they gather together for more profit. Corporate interests override other things.

The people who set up the business (businessmen) are a special group of people

Merchants are insatiable in terms of interests

The labels on some clothes stated that part of the income would be donated to children in the xx area. In fact, 13-year-old child labor was employed in the factories of these brands. I guess I will think about it for a while when I look at similar tags.

The poor can provide merchants as labor

Enterprise development also brings pollution:

Sure enough, petrochemical companies cannot escape being condemned.

Early animation

Countless companies have been fined for pollution, unfair competition and other illegal activities

Companies manipulate the mass media to write the news they want.

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Extended Reading

The Corporation quotes

  • Narrator: In a world economy where information is filtered by global media corporations, keenly attuned to their powerful advertisers, who will defend the public's right to know? And what price must be paid to preserve our ability to make informed choices?

  • Steve Wilson: One of the first stories that Jane came up with was the revelation that most of the milk in the state of Florida and throughout most of the country was adulterated with the effects of bovine growth hormone.

    Jane Akre: With Monsanto, I didn't realise how effectively a corporation could work to get something on the marketplace. The levels of coordination they had to have. They had to get university professors into the fold. They had to get experts into the fold. They had to get reporters into the fold. They had to get the public into the fold and of course the FDA, let's not leave them out. They had to get the federal regulators convinced that this was a fine and safe product to get it onto the marketplace. And they did that, they did that very, very well. The federal government basically rubber stamped it before they put it on the marketplace. The longest test they did for human toxicity was 90 days on 30 rats. And then either Monsanto misreported the results to the FDA, or the FDA didn't bother to look in depth at Monsanto's own studies.

    Steve Wilson: The scientists within Health Canada looked very carefully at bovine growth hormone and come to very different conclusions than the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. did.