David Lodge’s “My first job”, is a perfect example of how increased profits incite greed from an owners perspective. David Lodge himself admits to taking the low paying job of selling newspapers and magazines in Waterloo Station, “just to fill in a few weeks between getting his A-scores and going of to University.” He also acknowledges that this is a job for people with no future prospects--life is as good as it is going to get for them. Unlike David who will one day own his fathers shop and will be toward the top of the capitalist system ( i.e. the owner of a business), his counterparts have nothing to look forward to but maybe the possibility of working behind the counter in some dinner of sorts.

The next example is from “Women in the Banana Republics.” Women workers in these so called “banana republics” are brought in as “cheaper” labor when the cost of men laborers gets too high, if their labor unions get too powerful and threatening to the corporation or even if the companies just want part-time workers so they do not have to pay the workers as much. The typical woman worker in this case, a woman in the Philippines, earns about $1 a day and maybe about $40 a month. Because she washes bananas, her job requires her to stand for hours on end and at the end of the day she is forced to live in a bunk house with 100 other women. The little money she does make is not enough to sustain a life outside of the plantation. The American and Japanese companies that export the fruits pick, cleaned and sorted by these women to other countries profit hand over fist compared to what the workers are paid. Even if they were men, it really would not matter that much. These multinational companies are coming in to these poor villages and countries with run-down economies, promising to help by providing jobs to the people. In reality they are simply exploiting people in a severely desperate si

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