Vandalyn Hudson
1/25/2021
Cheap Word Response
In the article, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Patel and Moore discuss a variety of cheap things they believe in. These seven things include; nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives. Both Patel and Moore dissect the seven things into what they think the words mean depending on their perspective on the world. For example, cheap nature is said that the way “slaves were treated as part of Nature rather than Society” meant that people needed to use their resources around them to create more labor. This allowed them to be zero cost for them to work, therefore it is cheap. For cheap food, there was one food that was not on that spectrum, which was sugar. According to the article, sugar was a nice treat in Europe and was used a lot for the rich. Then, there is cheap energy and cheap lives which also is associated in a way that created capitalism through cheaply made items. Patel and Moore also mention world-ecology and how it has shown the world how capitalism has a huge impact on everything around them. The keywords that are presented in this article are; world-ecology, capitalism, and cheap. These three words have a play in what both Patel and Moore discuss in the article and really shapes our culture and world more and more.
Vandalyn, All good observations on the reading here, but shift away from reporting on what was said to addressing the how and the why. Cheapness is used in a specific way here--why and how do Patel and Moore propose this as a keyword?
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