The Smartest Guys in the Room

The movie, "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" is about how the big company, Enron's, falsity to the people in order to cheat for money and caused a lot of jobs loses. Enron chairman and chief executive, Kenneth Lay, died from heart attack. The CEO, Jeff Skilling, is still in prison today.

It's very similar to most of the stories we learned from Global Ethics class. It's all about human's greed. This movie is different, though. All the rest of the stories had left me thinking, "Don't they care about the other people?" but this movie provides a scientific "proof" It explains an old experiment that was testing on humans before. When a person is in charge of electrifying the person in the other room, he will later on become use to it. Eventually, even when he knows the voltage is high enough to kill someone, he has already lost the feeling of sympathy. That experiment can go to some stories we heard, such as Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart provides low cost to the customers by getting low cost labors. Even though Wal-Mart is in the States and most of the low cost labors are in China, I doubt that the heads of Wal-Mart have no idea about it. They definitely know what they paied to their worker is not enough for them to have three meals a day.

I'm not too sure about how ecomomy works, but if Enron had been lying and hiding about the numbers in their account, it should have influenced the whole economy. Enron's employees also had to suffer from losing their jobs just because the heads of their company wanted to earn extra money. To be fair here, Kenneth Lay and Jeff Skilling have got to be "the smartest guys in the room." Not a lot of people can create such a huge deception. However, too bad that they used it in the wrong way.