Blog entry 19: The Story of Stuff and Labor

The History of Stuff

Topic # 3.

The History of Stuff, another poke to our memory about what we are really doing to the world.  Annie Leonard state that 200,000 people are moving to the cities because they don’t have another option more the be part of the capitalism system.

The reason why people leave their home tow for a worst condition is because the decrease of natural resources. As a result they are the more affected and the corporation are the biggest winners.

I personally remember in my home tow in the early nineties when people were disposing food produces from their lands in stead to growing tobacco. The Dominican Republic had the world attention in the production of cigars. It was perfect at the time for the people at the country side because they had two sources of income. One was the labor in the manufactory  process in the cities, and second one for the owner of the lands growing or renting the land to grow the raw material. Bout generating more revenue the ever. Then not just cigarettes were bad for health, cigars as well. So investors run away, and the local people looked it as humiliate to go bad and work in the natural food industry. That is what the consumerism could do to  generations of tradition of living in a single decade.