The gin broke the bottleneck, making it possible to clean as much cotton as you could grow.
! - I didn't think of it this way. These inventions at the time were just used for exploitive purposes. They're supposed to make production easier but instead, they made the lives of African Americans even worse by forcing them to do 10x the work they were doing initially to increase production rates.
Men, women and children picked, using both hands to hurry the work.
🙌- Connection to the issue I chose, child labor.
Given the choice between modernity and barbarism, prosperity and poverty, lawfulness and cruelty, democracy and totalitarianism, America chose all of the above.
🙌- That is so true. In connection to my nonet poem analysis, I talk about how America has both good and bad sides to it. It's really such a mix of everything which I feel like is why so many people have different views and claims about America, a lot of which is true, but just varies on the people's interpretation and morals/background.
They virtually disappear in the United States, ranked dead last out of 71 nations with a score of 0.5.
🙌 - I did not know this, very interesting.
In Iceland, 90 percent of wage and salaried workers belong to trade unions authorized to fight for living wages and fair working conditions. Thirty-four percent of Italian workers are unionized, as are 26 percent of Canadian workers. Only 10 percent of American wage and salaried workers carry union cards.
? - What benefits do workers in these unions get that workers without union cards don't? Who has access to these cards and who doesn't? It seems like they aren't accessible to many people so, why is that? How can we make it more accessible to the general working class population?
In the United States, the richest 1 percent of Americans own 40 percent of the country’s wealth, while a larger share of working-age people (18-65) live in poverty than in any other nation belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (O.E.C.D.).
! - This is the big idea we've been talking about in class and what I've been brining up in my commentaries and creative pieces. The uneven wealth distribution. Based on my knowledge, I think this is the worst problem of our capitalist country. Maybe if we found a solution to this problem, people wouldn't have such strong and hateful views on capitalism.
incentivized
? - What does this word mean?
“No one wants to say it, no one’s proud of it,” he explained. “But this is a capitalist society, a capitalist system and capitalist rules.”
😕- To Shkreli- So instead of trying to make this capitalist society that no one is proud of better, you're just going to exploit it to your benefit instead? And after you do so, are you proud of it?