When asked the question, "What would you do for a million dollars?" many people's true character comes to light. Some might say they will betray their family, others might even say they will kill a random person on the street. Money changes people, whether it is a lot of money or a little. As a matter of fact, the more money someone has, the greedier that person seems to become. The problem is that money controls people; it makes them do the most ridiculous stunts, and for what? A new car? A new home to live in? People say, "Money is the root of all evil." If money was the most important thing in life then why do we remember people like Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm x, and Gandhi, but we don't remember the richest person in the world 50 years ago. America is facing the worst of its system of commodity and unless it changes, America is doomed for its downfall.
Every day we see advertisements with a half naked woman. The women are dehumanized and seen as objects all to make some money. Jean Kilbourne talks about this issue in, "Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt: Advertising and Violence" by stating, "Sex in advertising is pornographic because it dehumanizes and objectifies people, especially women, and because it fetishes products, imbues them with an erotic charge- which dooms us to disappointment since products never can fulfill our sexual desires or meet our emotional needs." Most of the time the product has nothing to do with a half naked woman, it is just there to attract the buyer. It is only one step away from prostitution, but instead of buying sex, you are buying cologne. To put it into even different terms, people looking at other humans as objects makes them nothing more than an animal.
Many company owners don't care about their employees, other than to make the most money out of them. Harwood Industries shut down the sewing department putting 120 people out of jobs.