A Little Salvation

为什么对于大合约商的管制如此难以执行？

今晚（应该说昨晚吗）码的第二篇

今天上课请到的guest不能更赞。之前只是单单有所耳闻，但没有真的意识到那么多处理犯罪案件的难处，特别是domestic violence。这种crime大部分人都是避而不谈的，都不情愿报案或者判刑。大多受害者是女性，他们不想走法律程序，可以找当地的相关组织寻求帮助。但是demostic violence是极其棘手的事物，国内相关的NGO/NPO少之又少。那位guest提到小时候自己家遭受burglar了，虽然当时不觉得有什么trauma，毕竟对她重要的只是丢失了的一个小猪钱罐而且之后过几天父母又给她买个新的了，但是真的改变了她，潜移默化地。那个事件永远对她有潜在的影响，比如回家看到灯亮的数量不一样，会产生踌躇，虽然不至于觉得恐惧。突然想起自己小时候被家暴，肢体暴力语言暴力，之前觉得很正常毕竟也没导致什么大伤而且大小孩是件很普遍的事，因为家里人总这样灌输我，不打不听话嘛。但是后来到初中才发现好像很多我的同学都没被打过，但我觉得大小孩子还是很普遍，即使现在我也觉得，可惜没有相关statistics。今天听了这个guest的lecture我才意识到，我现在的一些行为方式，是不是有被小时候的家暴影响。后来想想自己后来的一些对自己男/女朋友的冷暴力/暴力倾向（其实没有用听上去那么严重啦），和对其的justification和潜在admiration，才发现那些阴影从未离开过我，即使是那么“小”。

   偏题了。。。

Why is the regulation of big contractors so hard to be implemented?

 为什么对于大合约商的管制如此难以执行？

    Reading through the cases mentioned in thisarticle makes readers feel the invulnerability and helplessness of the workers,and recklessness of the contractors. These feelings, somehow meet those inMarx's Capital. 

    The government-cooperation association is ahuge hurdle of regulation, but deep inside it seems like the inequality is anunavoidable trait of the political and economic system. 

    Capitalism,as its title, emphasize capitals. Based on the capitals, companies followed apattern of pursuing larger capitals and properties, which is a criteria to valueand distribute individuals into differentiated living-level. The speed ofsocial innovation and development reaches to an unprecedented height, alongwith the increasing inequality. Equality and efficiency dilemma is invariably amajor concern for government and the society. Like inflation and unemployment,a country often has to sacrifice one to satisfy another, and what plan wouldreach a equilibrium is always controversial among public. So far, America isthe most unequal one among the developed countries. Here, prosperity grantsefficiency a significant reputation, and efficiency pulls rationalization to alofty height. Rationalization justify unequal treatment toward certain groups,like discrimination to women in labor force, blaming their weakness and maternalleave slow down the companies' efficiency. 

    This trend of utilitarian prefer tominimize the cost and maximize the benefits. To achieve this goal, companiesfound that the mode of mechanism is outstandingly useful: treating workers asmachines, putting them into routine daily-works, and imposing a rigid task whichhas to be completed. Efficiency reaches its peak under the condition ofdehumanization. Laws involving the environment, workplace safety, labor rights,consumer protection, and antitrust activities (P365) would be huge hurdles thatencumber contractors' path toward success. But since they occupy most of thecapitals, the government's bargaining power is weakened. 

    However, the condition is not that horribleso far. The triangle shirtwaist factory incident is still haunting the publicand legitimate administration. Awareness among people and organizations helpcorporate social responsibility an important duty that a company should carryon in order to earn public's recognition. In addition, Thomas Piketty,summarizing the late two centuries' wealth inequality in America, proposes thecycle of equality in his book Capital,believing in the self-adjustment of the society pushed by public urge andgovernment intervention. Moreover, we have reasons to believe in what ThomasHobbes and John Locke said, human beings have our own laws of nature, againstthe aggressive competence between each other, to preserve themselves andmaintain the lives as commodious as possible.

Citation:

Unjust Rewards byKen Silverstein

Capital in theTwenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty

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