Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price.

Although I have never been shopping in Wal-Mart, I have had of its name and known about its low prices, before. Wal-Mart can get a lot of costumers, is mainly for the reason that it has very low prices. People always go for the cheaper place for shopping. However, do they know the reason why Wal-Mart can be so cheap? I never knew the answer until we saw the movie, “Wal-Mart:The High Cost of Low Price”, in class. It shows us the employers’ opinion about their jobs and earnings. Most of them did not get enough payment to afford insurance, which protects them when they accidentally hurt themselves at job. Mal-Mart also pays the Chinese to help produce their produces, because Chinese labors are way cheaper than American labors are. The problem is that Wal-Mart pays extremely low salary to the Chinese labors while they actually sell the products, which are made by the Chinese, in the price that seem pretty low to the American costumers, but is a lot higher than what the Chinese labors had earned. The problem here is that the Chinese labors are living in bad conditions and they can not really help it because their salaries are only enough for them to get foods and stay alive. At the same time, the costumers of Wal-Mart did not know anything about this fact. They did not know that low price they are buying, today, is built by the people who are hardly earning anything. This is pretty similar to the idea of the movie, “Blood Diamond”, which is about the people with higher power were controlling the other Africans they have caught, to help them dig diamonds. The Africans that were actually doing the hard work did not get paid, while the ones that were above them, could sit there, wait for the labors to get the diamonds, and then they can sell those diamonds. Of course, it’s the people that are above the labors, are gaining something from those diamonds. Not the ones who found the diamonds.