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11/9 2021 The Corporation 7 ~Commercial Relationships~

    "Virtually every relationship we have is a commercial" caught my attention in the documentary. The borderline between genuine relationships and business/profitable relationships is indeterminate. With the difference in advantages and losses, people will only look at what the outcome is or what benefits them. One example is the weirdly large packaged products we buy online. Even if the product itself is small, the enormous boxes have their brand names written across, promoting their own business. I never paid attention to all the free advertisements we either participate in or involve ourselves without realizing; therefore, it has opened a new perspective on techniques regarding the proliferation of sales/profits.

    We discussed whether the patent for biological life is acceptable or not. As our society is maneuvering its way through creating new technology and altering DNAs, it is definitely a topic that needs to be touched upon. Even corporations transpose DNAs and utilize terminator seeds, as we have learned in class. Terminator seeds are created for the business to make more money and are not beneficial to us, buyers whatsoever. From this, we can say that we have no control over what we are exposed to and whatnot, but this wouldn't matter to the majority, since most people never realize it. 


notes:

 Iraq's missing billions 

virtually every relationship we have is a commercial. 

the doorman keeps boxes by their side, with brand names of express business. - also big boxes for the smallest products to advertise the brand

influencers also participate in advertising. 

patent for biological life is not good 

fox news- shoot a promo for the "investigators" Monsanto, levels of coordination, university professors, reporters and experts into the fold. FDA convinced that it was a fine product. 

conclusion was deleted from reports, secrecy and doubts regarding safety is unacceptable

Fox News was threatened and was not satisfied by the fat that advertising sales would decrease. 

"the news is what we say it is", pay money of the rest of their yearly salary, in exchange to zip up.


rainwater was also privatized, in Bolivia. 




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