Corporation Documentary

I knew I would like this video because I'm easily amused by these "Michael Moore" style documentaries, I find them very interesting. What I really liked about this certain film was the interviews. For example, they showed the former president of the Interface Carpet company, and his story was a perfect example of what this video was trying to do, take the CEO of a corporation and make them realize the dangers there companies instill on the environment. The Interface President completely changed based on customers asking him "what his company did for the environment", and many of these companies need to ask themselves these questions. What if every corporation and company just changed overnight like Interface, we would drastically reduce our carbon footprint. This video kind of taught me how these companies need to find a balance between what is good for sales? What is good for wages? And, What is good for the environment? What was really heartbreaking about this film was the sweatshops, that they showed, and how they explained that these people often worked for much less than one dollar per day. Also, they explained how much certain clothes sold for here, like a jacket for $130, and that jacket cost under a dollar for a person to make, and they were only payed 8 cents for the jacket. Its unreal how much mark up that a product will get, with absolutely no benefit to the manufacturer. This made me really sad, and embaressed because I more than likely own many of these products and I feel like I supported a terrible thing. I don't really know if I like Michael Moore or not, but he is so witty, he makes these style films so interesting. I was glad they used him for a small section, because when he does things like buy plane tickets for him and the owner of Nike to fly to Indonesia to see there facilities he is really pushing these companies to try to show what they are actually like. Either way if a comapny like Nike agreed or disagreed they would earn more of a poor reputation, they would either say no and lose customers, or agree and share the truth and lose many customers. In the end, I'm glad we viewed this video in class because its a video that gets people thinking and makes people aware of what these companies are doing thats bad, Although it would be interesting to see what these companies truthfuly do good for us?