001, John Smith, Ass. 1

Upon reading this article, I found myself continuously looking to the top of the first page to confirm the date. I felt as though I was reading of atrocities taking place hundreds of years ago. Furthermore, throughout this article I found myself flabbergasted at the cruelties, the hardships thrust upon a people by their fellow countrymen. I continued with the reading and realized, although this happened twenty to thirty years ago, times have changed very little. This article is simply another example of those “without” suffering at the hands of those “with”, once again for the primitive accumulation of capital.

I continue to think of the suffering and long hours the families had to endure. Not just to earn money, but to live; for the money they should have earned was never really given to them. There was always some way the landowners, or overseers would cheat them of there rightly earnings. The workers were forced to labor at excruciating levels and for fewer acceptances and rewards than what the landowners’ animals received. Further reading of this article had me infuriated that this could be taking place in the decade in which I was born, nearly thirty years ago. However, I realized that it is still taking place, and not just in Latin American countries, but probably right down the road; though not to such an extent, I can’t say I really know; perhaps I’ve chosen to be blind, or blinded by a society that would rather remain blind to such happenings.

Seemingly. everywhere you go you see poverty stricken folk and well-to-do folk interchanged in everyday life, though seldom intermingling; each persons world continuing to spin whether the other person is all right, or not. As the days go on we fail to see the impoverished, or the rich affect our lives. Actually, we fail to allow the impoverished to affect our lives, all the while begging the rich to continually give us more. Allowing them to become richer and to impoverish more. Today there are still sweatshops and malnourishment.

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