Essay 2

Consumerism

            Are you wondering where stuff came from and where its end up? We get the material to create the stuff from the nature. As we create things, we often destroy the natural environment around us. Also, while the nature is being destroyed, people lose their source of livelihood by losing their houses and food sources. However, companies are using the material from these natural sources and they also use the people that used to live in these places as workers. They provide shelters and a small amount of money for these people to survive. On the other hand, hungry consumers are waiting for new products to come up to satisfy the needs that the media has created. The media been drawing good pictures for the customer just to make them buy new items and replace the old items. When the consumer is done with the old item, it would be in a bad condition and would not be suitable for recycling.

Ms. Annie explained to the public about the manufacturers, and she shows all the hidden parts and secrets that people don’t know about how items are made.  Consumption is being increased by the consumers because of the corporations push them to shop and spend their money to satisfied their artificial hunger. On the other hand, corporations are getting bigger and having more power to play their artificial game better. We are the losers because we are the ones who the game been applied on and nature is being destroyed in the end.

When people are watching TV, they actually are getting motivated mentally by the corporations. They run to buy what the corporations are asking them to buy and also what is the new in the market. It doesn’t even matter if it’s useful for the consumer or not. For example, even the cars if we look at now a days, the corporation making them make sure it’s beautiful and distributed properly. However, when it comes to quality, it is a different story. Recently, the new cars runs only for 3 to 5 years and then it falls apart. The corporations are coming up with ‘’new stilly’’ cars every 5 years, although it might have more options, its quality is the worst.

On the other hand, laptops have the same shape since the manufacturers never really change its shape. Hundreds of these items are coming up in the market every year but it’s still almost always the same. Furthermore, there is a serious problem if people start to get lonely and put themselves at to keep up with this fantasy lifestyle. In UAE for example, some guys buy high class vehicles just to keep up with the fantasy lifestyle even if they putting on their selves in a financial burden.

It’s kind of impossible to stop the huge corporations from doing what they doing but we are the only the ones who are able to control the situation by controlling our selves from over buying their goods. Its really good to warn people who been used by these corporations but its may not be good enough. First of all we have to start by saving the forest, encourage clean production, encourage labor rights, etc. In the end, the main role is for the government to control the corporations from mass-producing low quality goods. People must get united and get involved in protecting the natural environment.

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