SOCI 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Commodity Fetishism, Marx'S Theory Of Alienation, Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer
22 Feb 2018
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Conclusion: what is the difference between a machine and a human being, not all issues are just ethical but social, economic and political. In the process of becoming a human being, social, economic, political and environmental factors play a more important role than genetic factors. Imperfections are natural and a source of biodiversity: making them a source of scientific discovery, power, and profit maximization can only increase the ever-widening inequalities between rich people/countries and poor people/countries. . 1m in 2012: meanwhile, the bottom 10% of canadians saw their median net worth shrink by 150%. 2012, their debts outweighed their assets by ,100 (it was ,000 in 2005) Inequalities are widening in most technologically advanced nations (in the usa, the top. 1% captured 85% of total income growth between 2009-2013) If cheap labor were all that mattered, all of the world"s manufacturing would be done in sub-saharan africa: neoliberal open-market economy is the main reasons for increasing global inequalities.
