Blogpost 5: Harms of Extreme Capitalism

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As we all know since we were in high school, we studied about economics and in economics we learned about capitalism which is an economic system where trades and industries are controlled by private owners. And through looking at some articles about Wall-E, I've read about articles which tackled about politics and ideologies and a topic about Capitalism caught my eye.

Moving on, according to an Article by Mande Wilkes entitled "WALL-E: SLAYING CORPORATIONS OR SAVING CAPITALISM?" from ftisnews.com says that Buy N Large which is the biggest private comany ruined the world by making the people experience and encouraging to consumerism which is consuming big amount of food, materials and abusing the technology, since they are the largest company there they have enough money to build the Axiom and encourage people to move to Axiom which later on the Earth has been forgotten about the people who stayed in Axiom including the recent captain.

As the Article says, "Directed to 'consume, consume, consume' by B & L, humans are corpulent slobs confined to floating robotic chairs, mindlessly relying on automation and these 'flying La-Z-boys' to meet their every desire." which is true because the Buy N Large corporation did ruin the lives of people including the government as well.

Therefore, because of Buy N Large corporation's capitalist entrepreneurship by being the number 1 company in the world, it became so powerful that it created a life in space that the government couldn't do anything because of Buy N Large corporation's wealth.

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Moving on, another article by J.A Carizo entitled "Wall-E and the Dangers of Capitalism" from biklish.com says that all the property is owned by a single company which makes the Buy N Large corporation showing kind of capitalist entrepreneurship because it controlled people by giving them their satisfactions and desires without experiencing any hard times 

Moving on, as the article says "Capitalism and consumerism has a price. And this becomes worst when coupled with greed. And if uncurtailed, the price may include the earth." which is true because too much capitalism without the control of it has a lot of consequences.

Hence, if capitalism continues not only the people will suffer and will face the consequences but also the place which is the Earth because people and the Earth have intimate connection and if capitalism continues the government might not control it anymore.