Slave Labour

Dear Sir

Hello my name is Clint. I have read your article about how a shop is selling cheap clothes made in Bangladesh and I will share my opinion on the matter.

It’s true that because the clothes are cheap, the store has an incredible profit. Everyone wants to spend as least money possible, so they buy which ever one is the cheapest and they don’t stop to think where those clothes were made or how.

For me it is important to understand where they were made and the conditions in which the workers did them, because as many wont know slavery is still a thing in some parts of the world. There are more slaves now a days than when slavery was legal, that is just incredible.

Many salves work for these clothing lines, whom get good work for nothing in return and the workers or slaves get treated badly, because the producers care more about money than human lives. They think of slaves as disposable, therefore they do everything they can to build their brand on the lowest budget possible so that they can sell it for cheap but still make a lot of money out of it.

The sad part is that many of the people who are slaves don’t even realize they are, this happens because they are used to it form birth or they think they are getting a fair deal but they have nothing to compare it to.

But the saddest part is that many people do know that the prices are probably as cheap as they are because of the usage of slavery but if they can spare a few bucks they are happy to look the other way and just buy it.

Yours faithfully,

Clint Kattwinkel

Blog entry 2

Governments all around the world are certainly faced with a wide range of problems; one of them is the balance between how they treat people with different ages and/or sickness. This is a problem because you cannot treat children the same as adults because they haven’t reached the level of maturity necessary to coexist with society, and you can’t treat a sick person the same as a healthy one because it would deteriorate their condition.

For example, governments need to build ramps for handicapped people because it isn’t their fault they got injured or sick, but not all of the governments treat every class equally or with the same benefits, it is as if they would just do what is easier and what has the lowest cost until a rule appears by which they have to do something.

That’s when the moral comes in, when you put a group before another and you choose to ignore an issue hence causing many protests and complains.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is undistinguishable from magic"

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is undistinguishable from magic"

-Arthur C. Clarke

First of all to understand and have a wider view of the statement of the quote by Arthur C. Clarke we have to explain the main concepts in the quote, which are magic and technology.

Magic is, according to oxford living dictionaries, “The power of apparently influencing events by using mysterious or supernatural forces”. Therefore used to explain things we can’t explain or that are so advanced that we don’t understand how they work.

On the other side, technology means: the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry. Hence a natural difference between both of them, one mysterious and another scientific knowledge.

The quote states that if a technology is sufficiently advanced to the extent in which we no longer understand how it works or how it is built (this might be different for every person) we assume it to be magic because as the definition states it, magic is mysterious and can’t be explained; making any extremely advanced technology, magic to a lot of people. This happens because they can’t explain it. (176 words)