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Cooperate Influence In America

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Go into any town in America and all the businesses are the same, from the layout of the buildings to the products inside. The omnipresence of these cooperations is so much a fact that most people don’t even question it, but the increase in cooperate influence in American life is detrimental to the people of this country, from the job genocide, to manufacturing youth behavior, and even the corrupting influence of monopolies seep into the society and is poisoning it from the inside. For starters, the rise of Cooperate America has led to a hot button issue in every single election: the loss of jobs. For example, Nike pays 75,000 workers to manufacture their shoes, but those are all outsourced jobs. As such, the only positions left are a few thousand …show more content…

With people feeling anxiety over a possible loss of a job and the ability to replace it afterwards, is it that much of a stretch to link it to economic insecurity? Of course, if the economic repercussions aren’t enough of a reason to believe that the cooperate influence is detrimental, the manufacturing of culture, especially in the youth, should be. There’s no better example of this than the band ICP, or Insane Clown Posse. ICP was considered a “rebel group” in Detroit. This was an era before hipsters, but the idea was much the same. Teenagers turned to this band because it wasn’t backed by any large cooperate media, so it was their personal way of fighting big businesses. However, this didn’t last. Eventually, they got signed to a major record company, which began producing them as an off-beat rebel group. This lead to the teenagers picking up the style, thinking that it was cool, the record companies producing more “rebel” albums, and the cycle continuing even to this day. Frontline sums it up best with: “And what if they turn to …show more content…

Cooperate America is always asked about during election season. However, this simply isn’t the case with cooperations being the government. One should look no further than our current President: Donald Trump. This power elite group destroys the pluralist theories of modern democracy and confidence in the government, with only twenty-six percent of Americans saying that they could trust it almost always or most of the time (Giddens et Al 406). With only wealthy, cooperate people in positions of power, who can blame the average person for not laying their full faith in

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