• Miranda Priestly Educates Andy About Her Cerulean Sweater | The Devil Wears Prada: self-explanatory. • How it Works: Cash for Gold Supply Chain - SOUTH PARK: “subtly” hints at children being exploited while being active participants in the supply chain due to lack of regulations surrounding child labor laws, corporations cashing in and finding low-cost opportunities in third world countries, especially. • Effective Way of Raising Awareness For Causes - SOUTH PARK: Touches a little bit upon product development and marketing.
Consumerism is fascinating, especially for someone who studied both Sociology and Media Literacy in school. Commercials are rich texts full of cultural values and norms. They’re incredibly interesting to watch.
Really eye-opening as to McKinsey’s active role in creating and maintaining the global inequality gap between CEOs and workers including mass layoffs and outsourcing. Also looks at its contributions to ICE detention, the climate crisis, the opioid crisis, the collapse of the NHS, and more.
- How American astronauts had about a 10 year period where they had to launch in Soyuz spacecrafts out of Kazakhstan (vs. American shuttles out of Cape Canaveral) and the US gov has to purchase seats for Americans on said space craft. We spent about $4 billion on those seats. - How money begets money begets money….and particularly the way it is all incubated in private high schools and universities. (Sorry for paywall articles, maybe you can access…)
