Madison Blackburn
January 26, 2020
Cultural Geography
A Cheap World
The reading “A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things” by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore was very interesting to read and learn about. According to this reading “the seven cheap things in this world are nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives (p.3)”. It is so crazy how capitalism is working and what it is made our world. The employees that are having to work at these cheap places trying to make some money, are hardly getting paid anything.
The result of these effects have taken peoples lives in the past and still do in many forms today. With people making this little of money, they don’t have enough money to supply even the basic necessities of life or support their families. What if they get injured? How will they cover the costs with little to no income? Capitalism is a chain effect and basically is promoting cheap labor. If we continue with capitalism pretty soon the world will be left with nothing and there won’t be anything to work with or for.
What do the authors mean by cheap? They are creatively introducing a new way of approaching this term, as well as creatively proposing other new terms in order to create a new way of understanding and changing the world. What are some of the keywords and what do the authors mean by them?
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