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Booming Industries: An Editorial

Angela Chen

Many industries in our current day have grown considerably rapidly. These booming industries provide a multitude of economic opportunities to the immigrants that have flooded our shores in search of new beginnings. This country is experiencing a period of great change in technology. The railroads built a structure for these industries to rely upon. Our country is quickly becoming a top economy in the national market. However, are these businesses always working for the common good of the society as a whole? I suspect not.

Urbanization makes the manufacturers have a way to control the fluctuation of currency. I am not stating that these industries are not a positive for growth of the country, but they are not beneficial to everyone in the community. These giants of industry are mass producers, which increases the amount of power we are able to exert upon other countries, but they also use up a lot of our natural resources such as the steel and oil. Resources do not last forever. Machines cannot be responsible for everything; there has to be a human factor too, such as in the assembly line. These jobs can often injure people. Of course, trial and error is not objectionable, but fires and accidents may be fatal, loss of human life is a very grim matter. The workplace has much discrimination against those who are different such as towards women and people of other racial backgrounds.

I think that discrimination is the greatest flaw of these booming businesses with their big tycoons as leaders. Discrimination is everywhere, but we can attempt to decrease its space in our world. Working conditions and safety issues are easier to improve. Women deserve a place in the working force of America. Why are they the ones struggling to fulfill their destinies; what makes them lesser than men?