Question: How does money affect our creativity and productivity?
First of all it is important know that what shapes our social structure is the ideologies of that era. And it is even more important to know that money is the ideology which shapes our society. We see them "natural" and so they remain unquestioned for centuries. Have you ever realized money as an ideology? They stay unexamined and hidden; no one dares to question it. We don't realize this but the money concept places parameters our minds unseen. While we are born and moulded in this invisible ideology our minds unintentionally sets up its fence accordingly. As we grow up we experience the limitations that this ideology, for example we wish to buy a Bugatti Veyron in the future and these dreams about things that have priced also diminishes our creativity. This is because we start see money as the barrier and the key for happiness which is not necessarily. This invisible barrier we put to ourselves causes us to imagine only material things but we forget that our creativity is infinite and has no boundaries in any kind. We can take a child for example; they are pure and unique. They can imagine and design unlimited amount of thing however this unfortunately gets thin. As money gets more significant in our lives when we grow up; we tend to seek it more than happiness. We all needs like water, shelter, food which requires money like every other requisite. We so work for it in various jobs and some (which is the dominant part) of us do not enjoy doing it. While these people forcibly work hard under the pressure of poverty abate our motivation as well as our productivity in that particular occupation. Nobody is fond of working in a job they despise. This de motivation but obligations catastrophically destroys our quality of life as we want it to be.
Certainly, Twitter's importance as a tool for freedom of speech was confirmed last spring in the Gezi Park protests in Turkey, when a civil movement emerged against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Justice and Development Party (AK Party). Many people used Twitter to share photos and videos of what was happening in Turkey and to distribute their opinions and messages about the situation.This led Prime minister to create a cencorship in turkey,however this event is goingt to effect lots of people such as some great business which is constructed on internet.However rather than this there is also a huge try to avoid us from accomplishing J.R.R's view,"everyone is socially equal", by putting on the internet cencorship government is banning our oppurtunity to use internet in good way(by meaning good way good for J.J.R's opinion).They are avoiding our right to conclude the events by researching and then critise.Turkey’s new internet law is based on the governments decisions,so they can demolish any video,that is against them,and make people blind or ignorant. J.J.R said: “man is born free, but he is everywhere in chains”and in this new law this quote is extremely suitable ,because we have the right of using our internet and do our research,however the information on internet is going to be biased and unreliable.The Turkish government is attemting to create a dictatorship or a state that people are dependent to government,which is totally against the ideology of J.J.R.
“The right to Internet access, also known as the right to broadband, is the view that all people must be able to access the Internet in order to exercise and enjoy their rights to Freedom of expression and opinion and other fundamental human rights, that states have a responsibility to ensure that Internet access is broadly available, and that states may not unreasonably restrict an individual's access to the Internet”.This is a law that valid in developed countries, our president is arguing that we are a developed country,but if this law applies how can Turkey be a developed country with an internet censorship. There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
School Entity “If school in no place to sleep, home is no place to study.” -Anonymous
The high school world encounters new members each day. Each new year, teachers, who say they were once a “student”, load the fresh minds with endless homework and students are bombarded with unprocessed knowledge which will be forgotten within days. During the time of digesting the information, new knowledge is given without even thinking of the consequences on the enslaved student.
Consequences, which the “education system” leads children to, such as lack sleep and limited social relationships, are indeed necessities for young adults who are going through a throbbing period of puberty full of endeavours. As students get fed with loads of information in this very limited time period, they eventually start putting a fight against their body to stay awake. Due to homework assignments, which are almost as extensive as EU reports (with inevitable deadlines), the only time where in utility could be acquired is destroyed. Exams, which do not truly show the potential of a student, all take place in the same week. Students also name this week as “the Sleepless Week”. If this issue is approached the Rousseauean view, we start questioning ourselves: “Why do we even get tested with questions which are used as grades to send the student to a higher class university where more profit is eligibly possible to obtain? The “education” system in high schools devastate the social life of the so-called new adult, though it provokes to get the maximum benefit by manipulating others’ freedom.
Nonetheless pedagogues are trustworthy about educating fresh brains when it comes to education since they had taken the knowledge to tutor. As well as teachers, schools should provide resources such as physical activities and outdoor activities in order to keep the student focused as well. Pedagogy system is based on the circumstances for a languorous student, who doesn't want to spend time in areas where no utility is gained, because giving extra information in at a time makes the student study and with the examinations an inceptive is given which is against the Rousseanuean view. With the compact curriculum, everybody agrees that easing the tutees nerves has a substantial impact on the social and physical margin. Activities such as basketball and theatre will calm the students, and with the education, freshmen will learn how to make more “profit”.
Although it is exhausting work for the sophomore, it has a positive externality on the society for the developing qualified labor, yet from a Rousseanuean view it gives an incentive to manipulate people which stimulates privatisation. Despite the negative externality caused to the young adults are scientifically proved by the researches done in USA about student phycology in recent years. Is it decent to pressurise students to make them selfish individuals?
Censorship is the control of the information and ideas circulated within a society. It is used to curtain the information that the government thinks should be classified, even though it would be beneficial for the society. Jean Jacques Rousseau would not agree with the idea of censorship inasmuch as it comes from the government. Censorship creates ignorance, which is argued to prevent strikes and outrages. According to Rousseau, people have the right to know everything, no matter how bad it is, not even things such as drugs, cigarettes and pornography. The main solution is not blurring the cigarettes or blocking pornography, it is searching deeper for the reasons why these addictions exist. A Rousseau supporter would agree that men come from moral roots and the fact that triggers the social iniquities are the social structures. These structures corrupt us and depress us. This corruption prompts pornography as well as strikes and raids. Not revealing the events happening such as murders, strikes or protests would not prevent the things from happening. An example would be the occupy Taksim Square event. Television shows or news hid the events from the rest of Turkey for an everlasting period of time. Even when most of the channels started showing the events after realizing that the truth was not possible to hide, CNN still showed documentaries about penguins. This was the proof of manipulating ignorance, and was used in propaganda at the occupy Taksim Square event. This demand of concealing information awakens the anger and bitterness in the society even more, instead of decreasing it. People want to know what is happening even more when they know it is hidden from them. In short, censorship is never beneficial, even if it is thins that are not beneficial to people such as drugs, cigarettes, or pornography. People have the right to know everything that is hidden from them. The intension of censorship is to stop spreading an ideology or bad addictions, however, hiding them creates an even worse desire to the hidden, and eventually strikes and revolutions.
“Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains” -Jean Jacques Rousseau
Although man is born without being informed of any rules, he is subject to the “social contract” assembled by the society he is born into regardless of his choice. With his controversial yet very meaningful and vital quote "man is born free and everywhere he is in chains", Rousseau explicitly reveals how we live in man-made prisons in which people trap each other. In the "state of nature" to which we are all born, such "prisons" (authorities, social classes, wealth and poverty) do not exist.
The question of whether anyone is "born free" is a cruel controversy. We live in a world in which we are all inevitably enslaved by society to a certain degree. Our modern world freedom is nothing but a misconception, and he who is gullible enough to believe freedom of speech and free trade is an equivalent to “freedom” is in no position to set the terms for the so-called social contract- but unfortunately those are the very men in charge of our nations, luring us into their pretentious schemes. Humankind is seemingly practical enough to let one canny looking man gain power out of nowhere and decide who owns what, yet not practical enough to come to the apprehension that those pieces of land are meant to belong to everyone in the first place. Rousseau exposes the true builders of these man-made prisons, as he refers to them as the founders of the civil society in his quote from the “Second Discourse” as it follows: “The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.”
The said “impostors” are the selfish social elites, who are seeking out privatized property. This is the point where the social contract and the fight against private property intertwines as the malevolent private property owners use their self proclaimed power to manipulate the people using their property; thus the social contract is imposed on the society through the mask of benevolence, while in reality humanity is being brutally enslaved.
As a child we are at the mercy of our parents and teachers and as we progress in life, this struggle of slavery becomes more and more painful. At all times we are expected to obey numerous regulations and laws, most of which we are even unaware of their existence. If we fail to keep our obedience, we are threatened by the society to lose our liberty. As JJ Rousseau asserted, the mask of benevolence makes it seem sensible to let the social elites privatize the land that is essentially the property of the entire community, while enslaving us in disguise. We let those men take advantage of our natural goodness and vulnerability in the same way that we agree to the social contracts, yet in return we are left with an useless piece of “private” land that’s really not even our land, but rather the land that we’ve been sold for a fee; and God knows who finds themselves rightful to put that monetary value on a part of nature.
Most likely JJ Rousseau would believe that the real slavery lies within one’s self if he is willing to let another authority "steal" the ownership of the land he lives in and make him obey their contract which was designed to satisfy their greed and selfishness, and to feed the infinite wants which had become necessities. We have seen various explicit examples in the history which show the intellectual capability mankind has and can use to argue against authorities that the land belongs to everyone and no one, yet shall forever be enslaved by the oppressive social contracts in disguise if they continue to let greater authorities take advantage of them and enslave them with "chains".
Doing our jobs effectively helps an economy to grow. How many hours in a day should one work? Too many hours take a lot of time from our personal life - we live for our job. Unfortunately it's exhausting; so, eventually we will get tired mentally, which influence our effectiveness. But unfortunately, when people become less effective, the companies fire them and find new workers.
When we work more than 8 hours, we can get stressed and blood pressure can rise. A combination of stress, raised blood pressure, and unhealthy diets stemming from long working hours may cause thousands of workers’ serious health problems. Although government or companies enslave us, we become dependent on medical care; and therefore we have to spend out income on medicines and treatment.
Everybody thinks that 8 hours a day or 40 hours a week is acceptable and has a scientific reason for it. To learn if it is true or not, we should know how the society decided to work 40 hours a week.
During the Industrial Revolution, factories had to run around the clock; so, employees during this era frequently worked between 10-16 hour days. In the 1920s, however, Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company, established the 5-day, 40-hour workweek.
Surprisingly, Ford didn’t do it for scientific reasons (or solely for the health of his employees). Rather, one of the main reasons he came up with the idea to reduce the working hours of his staff was so employees would have enough free time to go out and realize they needed to buy stuff.
So the 8-hour workday, 5-day workweek wasn’t chosen as the way to work for scientific reasons; instead, it was partly driven by the goal of increasing consumption.
However, now everybody works more than 8 hours, and they cannot go against the companies they work for; the reason is because there are a lot of unemployed people who are able and willing to work and if a person goes against the company, they will easily fire him and find a new person. The government and companies manipulate us and only think about high profits and low cost. Our wages are part of the cost to the company and when companies increase work hours and decrease wages, they earn more money. The rules made by companies enslave us mentally and make us think that everything is normal.
J.J. Rousseau's famous statement 'Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains." helps to understand that we depend on companies we work for and that they control our lives and lifestyles.
We go to work everyday, work for our future and our family. Not being aware of the current condition people are in is enslaving them. This is how majority of the people feel when in daily life. Everybody would think that: ‘I am free to decide on the choices I make in my life.’ This is correct, but the invisible system of slavery commands us every day. You don’t have to work but if you do not work your family will die because of starvation and your welfare will decrease. As clearly seen, today’s requirements of survival opens doors to slavery as a system to rule people. This system was born from the urge to have the power over the people by the creators of private corporatization. In Turkey for example, all the public corporations are slowly being privatized and this leads to more of a command-type economy and politics. Increase in the amount of privatized companies enslaves us more. This could be related to the way Turkey is going actually, the government is trying to be more restrictive when it comes to rules and this can be associated with the increased amounts of ‘unaware’ people. JJ Rousseau supports human equality and how people should collaborate with others to work for the better. His ideologies about human life promote working towards the group’s benefit rather than system serving one person. If he were alive today, he’d probably complain about the invisible chains used by the governments and private corporations. For the better, he would try to make people aware of the invisible chains. Overall, the system that is being used by the people in charge is against the ideas about human equality and forces people to be connected to a world, which is not even recognized by majority of people by many means Interesting Facts about Corporations: • Out of the 100 major economies in the world, only 49 of them are countries whereas the rest of them are corporations. • Aim of the corporations, maximizing the profit they make, can often lead to child labor, lack of human rights in the workplace, violation of human rights, cheap labor, lack of insurance etc. • Hiding money offshores decreases the amount of taxes corporations creates undermining democracy due to the fact that corporations do not pay taxes for the infrastructure they benefit from. • This private centralization also affects the future of human kind by making children consumption addicts. • The Top 200 corporations' combined sales are bigger than the combined economies of all countries minus the biggest 10. • The Top 200s' combined sales are 18 times the size of the combined annual income of the 1.2 billion people (24 percent of the total world population) living in "severe" poverty. • Between 1983 and 1999, the share of total sales of the Top 200 made up by service sector corporations increased from 33.8 percent to 46.7 percent. Gains were particularly evident in financial services and telecommunications sectors, in which most countries have pursued deregulation. • U.S. corporations dominate the Top 200, with 82 slots (41 percent of the total). Japanese firms are second, with only 41 slots.
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Question: How does money affect our creativity and productivity?
First of all it is important know that what shapes our social structure is the ideologies of that era. And it is even more important to know that money is the ideology which shapes our society. We see them "natural" and so they remain unquestioned for centuries. Have you ever realized money as an ideology? They stay unexamined and hidden; no one dares to question it. We don't realize this but the money concept places parameters our minds unseen.
While we are born and moulded in this invisible ideology our minds unintentionally sets up its fence accordingly. As we grow up we experience the limitations that this ideology, for example we wish to buy a Bugatti Veyron in the future and these dreams about things that have priced also diminishes our creativity. This is because we start see money as the barrier and the key for happiness which is not necessarily. This invisible barrier we put to ourselves causes us to imagine only material things but we forget that our creativity is infinite and has no boundaries in any kind. We can take a child for example; they are pure and unique. They can imagine and design unlimited amount of thing however this unfortunately gets thin.
As money gets more significant in our lives when we grow up; we tend to seek it more than happiness. We all needs like water, shelter, food which requires money like every other requisite. We so work for it in various jobs and some (which is the dominant part) of us do not enjoy doing it. While these people forcibly work hard under the pressure of poverty abate our motivation as well as our productivity in that particular occupation. Nobody is fond of working in a job they despise. This de motivation but obligations catastrophically destroys our quality of life as we want it to be.
Certainly, Twitter's importance as a tool for freedom of speech was confirmed last spring in the Gezi Park protests in Turkey, when a civil movement emerged against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Justice and Development Party (AK Party). Many people used Twitter to share photos and videos of what was happening in Turkey and to distribute their opinions and messages about the situation.This led Prime minister to create a cencorship in turkey,however this event is goingt to effect lots of people such as some great business which is constructed on internet.However rather than this there is also a huge try to avoid us from accomplishing J.R.R's view,"everyone is socially equal", by putting on the internet cencorship government is banning our oppurtunity to use internet in good way(by meaning good way good for J.J.R's opinion).They are avoiding our right to conclude the events by researching and then critise.Turkey’s new internet law is based on the governments decisions,so they can demolish any video,that is against them,and make people blind or ignorant. J.J.R said: “man is born free, but he is everywhere in chains”and in this new law this quote is extremely suitable ,because we have the right of using our internet and do our research,however the information on internet is going to be biased and unreliable.The Turkish government is attemting to create a dictatorship or a state that people are dependent to government,which is totally against the ideology of J.J.R.
“The right to Internet access, also known as the right to broadband, is the view that all people must be able to access the Internet in order to exercise and enjoy their rights to Freedom of expression and opinion and other fundamental human rights, that states have a responsibility to ensure that Internet access is broadly available, and that states may not unreasonably restrict an individual's access to the Internet”.This is a law that valid in developed countries, our president is arguing that we are a developed country,but if this law applies how can Turkey be a developed country with an internet censorship. There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
School Entity
“If school in no place to sleep, home is no place to study.”
-Anonymous
The high school world encounters new members each day. Each new year, teachers, who say they were once a “student”, load the fresh minds with endless homework and students are bombarded with unprocessed knowledge which will be forgotten within days. During the time of digesting the information, new knowledge is given without even thinking of the consequences on the enslaved student.
Consequences, which the “education system” leads children to, such as lack sleep and limited social relationships, are indeed necessities for young adults who are going through a throbbing period of puberty full of endeavours. As students get fed with loads of information in this very limited time period, they eventually start putting a fight against their body to stay awake. Due to homework assignments, which are almost as extensive as EU reports (with inevitable deadlines), the only time where in utility could be acquired is destroyed. Exams, which do not truly show the potential of a student, all take place in the same week. Students also name this week as “the Sleepless Week”. If this issue is approached the Rousseauean view, we start questioning ourselves: “Why do we even get tested with questions which are used as grades to send the student to a higher class university where more profit is eligibly possible to obtain? The “education” system in high schools devastate the social life of the so-called new adult, though it provokes to get the maximum benefit by manipulating others’ freedom.
Nonetheless pedagogues are trustworthy about educating fresh brains when it comes to education since they had taken the knowledge to tutor. As well as teachers, schools should provide resources such as physical activities and outdoor activities in order to keep the student focused as well. Pedagogy system is based on the circumstances for a languorous student, who doesn't want to spend time in areas where no utility is gained, because giving extra information in at a time makes the student study and with the examinations an inceptive is given which is against the Rousseanuean view. With the compact curriculum, everybody agrees that easing the tutees nerves has a substantial impact on the social and physical margin. Activities such as basketball and theatre will calm the students, and with the education, freshmen will learn how to make more “profit”.
Although it is exhausting work for the sophomore, it has a positive externality on the society for the developing qualified labor, yet from a Rousseanuean view it gives an incentive to manipulate people which stimulates privatisation. Despite the negative externality caused to the young adults are scientifically proved by the researches done in USA about student phycology in recent years. Is it decent to pressurise students to make them selfish individuals?
CENSORSHIP IS NOT THE SOLUTION
Censorship is the control of the information and ideas circulated within a society. It is used to curtain the information that the government thinks should be classified, even though it would be beneficial for the society. Jean Jacques Rousseau would not agree with the idea of censorship inasmuch as it comes from the government. Censorship creates ignorance, which is argued to prevent strikes and outrages. According to Rousseau, people have the right to know everything, no matter how bad it is, not even things such as drugs, cigarettes and pornography. The main solution is not blurring the cigarettes or blocking pornography, it is searching deeper for the reasons why these addictions exist. A Rousseau supporter would agree that men come from moral roots and the fact that triggers the social iniquities are the social structures. These structures corrupt us and depress us. This corruption prompts pornography as well as strikes and raids. Not revealing the events happening such as murders, strikes or protests would not prevent the things from happening. An example would be the occupy Taksim Square event. Television shows or news hid the events from the rest of Turkey for an everlasting period of time. Even when most of the channels started showing the events after realizing that the truth was not possible to hide, CNN still showed documentaries about penguins. This was the proof of manipulating ignorance, and was used in propaganda at the occupy Taksim Square event. This demand of concealing information awakens the anger and bitterness in the society even more, instead of decreasing it. People want to know what is happening even more when they know it is hidden from them. In short, censorship is never beneficial, even if it is thins that are not beneficial to people such as drugs, cigarettes, or pornography. People have the right to know everything that is hidden from them. The intension of censorship is to stop spreading an ideology or bad addictions, however, hiding them creates an even worse desire to the hidden, and eventually strikes and revolutions.
“Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains”
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
Although man is born without being informed of any rules, he is subject to the “social contract” assembled by the society he is born into regardless of his choice. With his controversial yet very meaningful and vital quote "man is born free and everywhere he is in chains", Rousseau explicitly reveals how we live in man-made prisons in which people trap each other. In the "state of nature" to which we are all born, such "prisons" (authorities, social classes, wealth and poverty) do not exist.
The question of whether anyone is "born free" is a cruel controversy. We live in a world in which we are all inevitably enslaved by society to a certain degree. Our modern world freedom is nothing but a misconception, and he who is gullible enough to believe freedom of speech and free trade is an equivalent to “freedom” is in no position to set the terms for the so-called social contract- but unfortunately those are the very men in charge of our nations, luring us into their pretentious schemes. Humankind is seemingly practical enough to let one canny looking man gain power out of nowhere and decide who owns what, yet not practical enough to come to the apprehension that those pieces of land are meant to belong to everyone in the first place. Rousseau exposes the true builders of these man-made prisons, as he refers to them as the founders of the civil society in his quote from the “Second Discourse” as it follows:
“The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.”
The said “impostors” are the selfish social elites, who are seeking out privatized property. This is the point where the social contract and the fight against private property intertwines as the malevolent private property owners use their self proclaimed power to manipulate the people using their property; thus the social contract is imposed on the society through the mask of benevolence, while in reality humanity is being brutally enslaved.
As a child we are at the mercy of our parents and teachers and as we progress in life, this struggle of slavery becomes more and more painful. At all times we are expected to obey numerous regulations and laws, most of which we are even unaware of their existence. If we fail to keep our obedience, we are threatened by the society to lose our liberty. As JJ Rousseau asserted, the mask of benevolence makes it seem sensible to let the social elites privatize the land that is essentially the property of the entire community, while enslaving us in disguise. We let those men take advantage of our natural goodness and vulnerability in the same way that we agree to the social contracts, yet in return we are left with an useless piece of “private” land that’s really not even our land, but rather the land that we’ve been sold for a fee; and God knows who finds themselves rightful to put that monetary value on a part of nature.
Most likely JJ Rousseau would believe that the real slavery lies within one’s self if he is willing to let another authority "steal" the ownership of the land he lives in and make him obey their contract which was designed to satisfy their greed and selfishness, and to feed the infinite wants which had become necessities. We have seen various explicit examples in the history which show the intellectual capability mankind has and can use to argue against authorities that the land belongs to everyone and no one, yet shall forever be enslaved by the oppressive social contracts in disguise if they continue to let greater authorities take advantage of them and enslave them with "chains".
-Emir and Naz
How many hours should one work?
Doing our jobs effectively helps an economy to grow. How many hours in a day should one work? Too many hours take a lot of time from our personal life - we live for our job. Unfortunately it's exhausting; so, eventually we will get tired mentally, which influence our effectiveness. But unfortunately, when people become less effective, the companies fire them and find new workers.
When we work more than 8 hours, we can get stressed and blood pressure can rise. A combination of stress, raised blood pressure, and unhealthy diets stemming from long working hours may cause thousands of workers’ serious health problems. Although government or companies enslave us, we become dependent on medical care; and therefore we have to spend out income on medicines and treatment.
Everybody thinks that 8 hours a day or 40 hours a week is acceptable and has a scientific reason for it. To learn if it is true or not, we should know how the society decided to work 40 hours a week.
During the Industrial Revolution, factories had to run around the clock; so, employees during this era frequently worked between 10-16 hour days. In the 1920s, however, Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company, established the 5-day, 40-hour workweek.
Surprisingly, Ford didn’t do it for scientific reasons (or solely for the health of his employees). Rather, one of the main reasons he came up with the idea to reduce the working hours of his staff was so employees would have enough free time to go out and realize they needed to buy stuff.
So the 8-hour workday, 5-day workweek wasn’t chosen as the way to work for scientific reasons; instead, it was partly driven by the goal of increasing consumption.
However, now everybody works more than 8 hours, and they cannot go against the companies they work for; the reason is because there are a lot of unemployed people who are able and willing to work and if a person goes against the company, they will easily fire him and find a new person. The government and companies manipulate us and only think about high profits and low cost. Our wages are part of the cost to the company and when companies increase work hours and decrease wages, they earn more money. The rules made by companies enslave us mentally and make us think that everything is normal.
J.J. Rousseau's famous statement 'Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains." helps to understand that we depend on companies we work for and that they control our lives and lifestyles.
We go to work everyday, work for our future and our family. Not being aware of the current condition people are in is enslaving them. This is how majority of the people feel when in daily life. Everybody would think that: ‘I am free to decide on the choices I make in my life.’ This is correct, but the invisible system of slavery commands us every day. You don’t have to work but if you do not work your family will die because of starvation and your welfare will decrease. As clearly seen, today’s requirements of survival opens doors to slavery as a system to rule people.
This system was born from the urge to have the power over the people by the creators of private corporatization. In Turkey for example, all the public corporations are slowly being privatized and this leads to more of a command-type economy and politics. Increase in the amount of privatized companies enslaves us more. This could be related to the way Turkey is going actually, the government is trying to be more restrictive when it comes to rules and this can be associated with the increased amounts of ‘unaware’ people.
JJ Rousseau supports human equality and how people should collaborate with others to work for the better. His ideologies about human life promote working towards the group’s benefit rather than system serving one person. If he were alive today, he’d probably complain about the invisible chains used by the governments and private corporations. For the better, he would try to make people aware of the invisible chains.
Overall, the system that is being used by the people in charge is against the ideas about human equality and forces people to be connected to a world, which is not even recognized by majority of people by many means
Interesting Facts about Corporations:
• Out of the 100 major economies in the world, only 49 of them are countries whereas the rest of them are corporations.
• Aim of the corporations, maximizing the profit they make, can often lead to child labor, lack of human rights in the workplace, violation of human rights, cheap labor, lack of insurance etc.
• Hiding money offshores decreases the amount of taxes corporations creates undermining democracy due to the fact that corporations do not pay taxes for the infrastructure they benefit from.
• This private centralization also affects the future of human kind by making children consumption addicts.
• The Top 200 corporations' combined sales are bigger than the combined economies of all countries minus the biggest 10.
• The Top 200s' combined sales are 18 times the size of the combined annual income of the 1.2 billion people (24 percent of the total world population) living in "severe" poverty.
• Between 1983 and 1999, the share of total sales of the Top 200 made up by service sector corporations increased from 33.8 percent to 46.7 percent. Gains were particularly evident in financial services and telecommunications sectors, in which most countries have pursued deregulation.
• U.S. corporations dominate the Top 200, with 82 slots (41 percent of the total). Japanese firms are second, with only 41 slots.
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