When you consider socioeconomic level, what do you see in this picture? A poor man? A day trader? What status did you assign him? Is he alienated? Is he a pawn of capitalism? I occasionally use this photograph in class to illustrate how easily opinions can be formed based on appearance rather than true information gathering. This man rolls in his goods to sell to tourists every day, …
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Creativity over Consumption
Cultures differ on where and how virtue and flourishing are found. A capitalist, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, testifies to what consumerism may steal from society. Worse, if you agree with his claims, what if all we have done is mass market consumerism to the world? http://theweek.com/articles/616106/capitalist-critique-consumerism …