The importance of being earnest.......

Hello dear Readers,

So, for this week in Social Class we got separated into groups in preparation for a debate (Yay! For debates). The students needed to defend certain parties against environmental, labor and social charges. The parties include: Trans(Multi) National Corporations, Poor Country Elites, US Consumers, Poor Country Workers and the System of Profit. When all was said and done, I was given the task to defend the Corporations. I shook my head in grim disappointment and asked myself "How can you defend something that clearly is guilty of these crimes?". 

I stayed up past my bed and scoured the internet for information and facts that would disprove the "allegations". I found a lot of information that supports Multi-Nationals like how they inject capital wealth to the economies of developing countries and such. That was the easy part. The difficult part was defending the excess and corruption Multi-Nationals blatantly practice. I was absolutely unprepared in answering those questions and the teacher had to step-in to help our group (which was absolutely humiliating for me, no offence to my social teacher). Mind you, I'm not some hot-shot lawyer. In the end of the debate, I found myself very silent and feeling nothing short of defeated. I love debates but I hate losing them.

But in the grand scheme of things, every single soul in the world is responsible for the welfare of each other. Multi-National Corporations must provide more efficient products and goods to the consumers. They should also manufacture these goods with full consideration about environmental sustainability and the workers they employed. The consumers must demand products that are environmentally and socially conscious. Our governments must regulate the Fat Cats so that our resources and workers are protected from extreme exploitation. The system or thinking of our societies must change from profit to something more humane and caring. This can work! We have to make it work or else we are fundamentally contributing to our own extinction.

"Man's inhumanity to man" is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.

-Alexander Berkman

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