Hi, my name is Addison and this is my first quarter at Foothill. I did 2 years at Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles then decided to leave due to a lack of focus and direction. I've been living at home and working at a technology company for the past year and recently got the urge to go back to school to take some writing classes. I greatly enjoy reading and writing and am taking as many related classes as I can to practice and improve my skills. I don't have any set plans for my academic future though I'm leaning towards finishing out my remaining 2 years as a creative writing major. Excited to continue learning and sharing with you all.
In response to the consumer worksheet, I was surprised to find out that the wages of most sweatshop workers are higher than the average wage in their country. Our culture has, in an effort to distance ourselves from the fact that we utterly rely on their operation to support our mad consumerist lust, taught us negative associations with sweatshops; that the people work for nothing, are maltreated, live in squalid conditions, and while they are by no means living at what anyone would consider a decent standard, at least compared to their fellow country men and women sweatshop workers seem to be slightly better off. This in itself is appalling and illuminates just how dire the living circumstances are in most parts of the world. It is incredible to fathom the disparity between human beings in the range of our standards of living.
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