https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc Answer one or both prompts. Feel free to discuss with your neighbors! en-us 2021-12-01 04:04:45 UTC 2021-12-01 13:59:43 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f30d.png smithsid1 https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922805536 Put your answers under this!]]> 2021-12-01 13:53:31 UTC https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922805536 https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922806964 False sense of security and create a form of ‘prosperity’ viewed on by other countries. This leads to propaganda and spreading media that is unlike actual living conditions. ]]> 2021-12-01 13:54:05 UTC https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922806964 https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922808067 It made living and working conditions inhumane. No osia to make sure the safety of the workers was accounted for.]]> 2021-12-01 13:54:30 UTC https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922808067 https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922808630 The proliferation of a huge number of manufacturing buildings in the UK; the corresponding decline of industrial fabric in India, as the Indian textile industry (25% of entire global production in 18th c) was undermined by the British. How come the British could do this??]]> 2021-12-01 13:54:43 UTC https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922808630 https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922809346 Ever seen “parasite”? ]]> 2021-12-01 13:54:59 UTC https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922809346 https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922809456 Working environments tended to be fairly i humane and this was coupled with long hours. Since there weren’t any labor laws, even children were subjected to these conditions ]]> 2021-12-01 13:55:02 UTC https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922809456 https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922809614 With profit maximization as the primary objective, I feel like capitalism subjugated the individual to the collective in a similar way to communism. The result, of course, has historically leaned towards high but unsustainable growth based on exploited Human Resources.]]> 2021-12-01 13:55:05 UTC https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922809614 https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922810420 I think the values of capitalism tend to force expansion. More resources (like raw material and labor) are constantly needed to sustain it and the empires built on it. ]]> 2021-12-01 13:55:23 UTC https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922810420 https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922810539 Capitalists exploit labor force to make profits, employing too much labor force and working overtime endlessly is an example of the deteriorating working environment.

]]> 2021-12-01 13:55:25 UTC https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922810539 https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922811174 The goal of profit creates a motive for imperialism because it’s easier for an empire to acquire raw goods for production when they have political control of the place where those goods are produced]]> 2021-12-01 13:55:38 UTC https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922811174 https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922811593 Capitalism provides a framework for violence, that can be called something other than violence by the governing power.]]> 2021-12-01 13:55:46 UTC https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922811593 https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922811766 Part of what drove the growth of European empires in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was demand from capitalists that their overseas investments be secured. This meant military intervention.]]> 2021-12-01 13:55:50 UTC https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922811766 https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922812687 I think the Empire becomes completely entwined with the economic cycle. The empire both benefits from the success of extracting raw materials and selling it back to the colonized when the economy is doing well. But this isn’t a full picture. It is important to consider who is rising within the empire and who is not. ]]> 2021-12-01 13:56:12 UTC https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922812687 https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922814216 These values took away any motivation to create comfort or increase livability of those who are just part of the machine of profit, especially when these people are viewed as none special and easily replaceable in the view of the bottom line]]> 2021-12-01 13:56:47 UTC https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922814216 https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922822792 It impacts the working environment by lifestyle conditions of the working class, and the city planning that revolves around supporting economic values. Whether through building structure or proximity. These values can ultimately change the future of these cities in a rapid action.]]> 2021-12-01 13:59:43 UTC https://padlet.com/smithsid1/c1wopam02z4os9oc/wish/1922822792