Throughout the world, many corporations thrive and continue to grow. One of the main reasons these corporations thrive s because of low prices and high profit. First off, a company must ask themselves, "How are we going achieve low prices and high profit margins?". Say they are a company that produces and assembles plastic toys in a factory. One way they could lower cost is by working on creating a better design and another is to improve the equipment. This all falls under improving efficiency. Most corporations recognize these possible improvements and strive for them; Others decide to cut down costs and raise profits another way. These other corporations misuse laborers, violating human rights in the interest of their own profit. Often foreigners and children are exploited in this way. Foreign countries tend to have lower minimum wages and workers willing to work for extremely low pay. As larger corporations expand, they set up factories and branches of their companies in foreign countries. Often, they do this to hire cheap labor. Although many corporations claim that they are entering a country to help them out or support their economy. Many of the countries they enter do not have stable or democratic economies or systems. Entering these countries usually does not help if not unbalancing the economies even further. In these foreign country factories, you also commonly find poor working conditions. This is where Human Rights is seriously violated and people start to get mad. It is not constitutional for an American corporation to move into a foreign country and place workers in unsafe working conditions all day on a very low wage. Many citizens or workers realize this and decide to strike or protest. Some corporations have been accused of hiring local militia to kill or scare off protesters against their company.
After reading all about corporations and how many violate human rights laws, I thought about many of the products I own and the conditions they might have been made in, what it takes for a worker to assemble them, and how much that worker was paid to create my belonging. I also have realized that the bigger companies usually tend to violate human rights laws the most, so it is important that we support local and honest small businesses.