PHI 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Social Darwinism
CONSUMER PROTECTION AGENCY
Muscle cars - Tabacco - no ads because targeting young
NADAR - unsafe at any speed
Prescription drugs - cost - testing
Collapse of airline competition
No bank could be outside the limits
ARGUMENT - free market capitialism
One moral imperative —> profit
- stockholders matter/ workers, but people who buy products (screw them!)
Social Darwinism (Spencer)
- fittest survive
- Money and power determine survival ability
- Higher up evolutionary scale
examples : reagan’s trickle down economics and laws that favor the rich (most valuable)
“if they die they die.”
- businesses have no moral responsibility
- Any redistribution of wealth interferes with the right to survive and compete
“ so if we all die because we take our livers out, they don’t care”
- in a consumer-based market, sales are fueled by features and benefits and artificial
needs
1995 to 2015
- 28 million cameras sold a year
2010
- no real technology advances, just more features
2018
- Image quality is lower
These businesses say they have new feature is one new benefits but it’s not about the
long-term
“ a lie is a lie it’s a lie is a lie”
“ The responsibility is on us on how to change it”
1) what if a business really assumed responsibility for its workers?
2) Need for social welfare
3) Rethink consumption
