This past week we had to read chapters on Global Inequality, and I have to say that many in America just do not realize how good of a life they have. I am usually always talking about how minumim wage should be increased, when the subjec is brought up. We complain often about the "1%" of our country; apparently it is like this all around the world, but there are many that are MUCH worse off than we are.
Barbie dolls, as I read about in the text, is a very popular child's toy in this country; but did you know it has never been produced in this country? It is always made in the countries where they can get them the cheapest, usually the most stricken by poverty, where the workers make maybe $1 per day. Here in this country we have become so entitled and complain so easily. Our minimum wage workers "only" make $7 and change an hour. Some of these countries making our latest tech gadgets (cell phones, tablets, etc) that we HAVE to have it seems, have workers that only make pennies an hour. But the heads of these corporations making the gadgets, dolls, cars, etc are rolling in the dough; just like some of the CEO's of large companies in this country that we all seem to complain about.
I think if every American sat down and really researched how badly some other countries have it, and how easy we really do have it here, we would be complaining a whole lot less.
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