The money we waste

"outsourcing," ""no logo," or "stuffed and starved".

I think the most liberal standpoint one could take on all three of these topics is that each of them, to a degree, is correct and needs to be taken seriously. As discussed in the website about "the story of stuff" outsourcing seems to be a bold new way for corporations to impose the hardships of labor and decay of pollution overseas while avoiding the higher regulations in the U.S. and the costlier service of wages.

No logo hopes to take down the advertising franchise that has really become almost a freidnly competition between big name companies. I mean of course they all want the biggest market share of clients but they also know that survival in the ad world comes best with alittle team work. I mean why else do rival companies such as Mcdonals and Burger King take turns in putting each other down with new sandwiches or burgers claiming to be better than the opponents. Only on some unplanned occasions do they end up sueing each other but other than that, that type of competition is permitted becuase it drives sales.

The stuffed and starved approach aims at shedding light on the behind the scenes about how companies take on different approaches to increase budget or revenue even if it means pushing the currency in smaller 3rd world countries past the limit.

Here's my take - All of them are part of the same problem, you shouldnt buy into one of them while ignoring the other and you shouldnt try taking down one while the other two topics remain at large.

Outsourcing is corporate lingo for imposing a capitalist endeavor in a foreign nation. Now usually proponents for outsourcing call it creating better lives for the citizens of the country by paying them money they would never see in any other jobs there. But we saw the video and the long night hours of work citizens had to put it. Now add onto that the logo theory and you have a working breathing U.S. economy in India. Work by night, spend money by day - a cycle to say the least.

The no logo approach and the stuffed and starved are reaction to the action of capitalist business ethics.

I think its too hard to apply a yes this makes sense and no this doesnt work to any of these 3 reasonings. But i just dont want to add myself to either 3 of them. they all stem from the same thing, U.S. economy. This isnt a rant, but really we've become a modern form of slavery. Work, eat, spend, sleep. and all over again. America prides itself so much for having the "best" economy in the world, and for what? to know that if any little penny percentage drops a bit now we all run for the hills. It should be more than that.