How will the pandemic effect Globalisation?

Globalization has been an ever-expanding phenomenon in humanity since transportation was invented. From trading in places like the spice route and silk road thousands of years ago to cargo ships and planes transporting goods and machinery today, its…

Achieving Equity for Minorities through a UBI

Imagine having to watch your mother go bankrupt as a pre-teen, moving seemingly infinite times before the age of 18 because of eviction, or attending school while couch-surfing. Unfortunately, these and many other impoverished circumstances are…

Drawbacks of Reparations (Rough Draft)

Some say that the descendants of slaves should receive reparations for the colonial past, but I believe this is not a practical way to improve the lives of African Americans due to the persisting racism. These reparations can include giving money or land to…

The Inadequacy of Conscious Consumerism

Free-range, Organic, 100% recycled material are some of the labels on the radars of ethical consumers. As the impacts of industrial practices on our environment and their subsequent contribution to climate change come into clear focus, consumers now look for…

Conscious Consumerism Won’t Help — At the Moment

We’re currently living in a world where climate change looms over us while we fight off the other events occupying our everyday lives. Each day, we’re reminded that within a few decades, a climate crisis so big will happen that the change in…

Conscious Consumerism isn’t Effective Necessarily, but still Necessarily Necessary: Why Conscious Consumerism Does Not Help Global Working and Environmental Conditions

Is the Pandemic Actually a Driving Force of Globalization?

The year 2020 has riddled us with chaos and turmoil unseen since the financial crisis of 2008 and even the Black Plague. Citizens all across the world were forced to leave work, businesses closed, and the world radio silent for…

Conscious Consumerism: Simply A Starting Point

“No pesticides,” “BPA free,” “organically grown.” These are all phrases we see plastered onto hundreds of products at supermarkets. Meanwhile, we see articles and posts on social media calling for boycotting businesses like H&M that may have ties…

It will take more than a disease to keep us from watching a trending Korean drama

Conscious Consumerism: Distraction from the Real Issue

“Buy green! It’s good for the environment!” We have all most certainly heard this infamous phrase that incites us into buying “green” due to the increase of green products in the market. In recent years, many people have ditched their…

Paying the poor to solve poverty — not as simple as it sounds.

A universal basic income (UBI) is defined as a monthly cash payment to every citizen of a nation. The amount of cash varies depending on who proposes the idea, but the general gist of it is that the monthly payments should…

Would a Universal Basic Income Help Global Poverty?

Universal Basic Income is a government program in which every adult citizen receives a set amount of money regularly with the ultimate goal of eliminating poverty and replacing social welfare programs that require greater investments and…

How should we view the risks and promises of populism?

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Populism in a form at least vaguely reminiscent of what we know it as today has been around for a couple centuries or so. Yet, it is in the last decade or so that the rise of…

The Irony of Right-Wing Populism

Aidan Banan

Writing 150

Professor Dochterman

October 11, 2021

The Irony of Right-Wing Populism

When Is It Right To Implement Universal Basic Income?

In most developed countries in the world, the income and wealth disparity continues to widen. Many politicians, authors, and researchers have proposed myriads of different options such as increasing the minimum wage and investing in…

Conscious Consumerism is Nice, But Don’t Get Comfortable.

Conscious consumerism is a shopping style that people adopt to buy more eco-friendly and ethical goods. Whether that be because they want to buy products they know are reducing pollution in the environment like reusable straws and…

The Effects of Global Capitalism on Climate Change

The main question of whether or not global capitalism can solve climate change still stands today. I believe that global capitalism cannot solve climate change, in fact it does the opposite and encourages it. This has happened a lot recently…

Conscious consumerism and its ability to improve global conditions

We as a planet have been harming the environment for centuries. Our rapid industrialization and careless large scale consumerism, without any regards for the environment, has done immense damage to the planet. This…

WP2 Rough Draft

A universal basic income, or unconditional basic income, has been an economic idea in question dating back to the 16th century. Most politicians viewed it as a fantasy that could never be implemented, yet it’s been getting more light in the recent years as a wealthy few continue to control a free…

Conscious Consumerism CAN improve global conditions

Conscious consumerism is when buying practices are driven by a commitment to making purchasing decisions that have positive social, economic, and environmental impacts. Conscious consumerism can help global conditions, despite that some…

UBI

Recently, more and more countries have been switching over to an economic system of private ownership. This capitalistic system has resulted in enormous economic growth in some countries such as China. It may seem great on the outside as we see the emergence of beautiful cities and the luxuries of the future. But…

A Populist People’s Democracy

“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the divided Republic for which it hardly stands, a crumbling Nation, under many forms of religious beliefs with liberty and justice for some.” This daily recount of this pledge through my 18 years of public school made me…

Reason and Passion: Considering populism

“The water that bears the boat is the same that swallows it up” famously said Xun Zi, an ancient Chinese philosopher while witnessing the disintegration of the empire of Zhou into a dozen smaller states with many peasant uprisings. There is a very close…