The American Dream

Economix, was a book that made me have a better understanding of the economy. On page 83, The Robber Barons, was a page that really spoke to me and how we are as a society. Citizens tend to succeed with higher education or work hard to get to where they are in terms of being stabilized with a job in which they can have some type of income to their lives, but this is an idea that is driven out by Social Darwinism. We tend to say that we must work hard to succeed and get a life we want because if you don't work hard enough then you won't succeed. This all comes from that theory. One example can be that we see people in poverty asking for our help, but what we do is see them and start thinking, "well I don't want to be living like they are, so I must work hard enough to get what I want and not end up living in poverty" (This might not apply to everything) but that is what we have in our mind. 

Another thing is the competition that there is. There are bands that have the same product but just different quality. It seems that the quality is what drives more consumers/buyers the most. Companies pay lots of money to promote their product to the future clients to get the product being promoted. By doing this, there is always an image, song, sentence, etc, that most of the time people will recall the company/industry presents it. Competition is everywhere in the business industries and will continue to be a trend for them to get consumers and incomes.