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Exploiting and outsourcing, these are the terms that come to mind when big businesses try and stay large. Companies such as Amazon are one of the very many companies that fall into the category of exploiting their employees through low pay with high amounts of responsibility. The author stated that he was required to take on hundreds of calls a month dealing with Amazon's website (one of the largest and stickiest sites on the internet), he mentioned that it was very "bootcamp-ish" with their regimental protocol and their absurd style of accomplishing tasks. For $10 an hour, the company believes that they can find any fresh out of college punk and hire them to do major gruntwork and be micromanaged to deal with the issues the upperclass worker bees don't want to. As the author stated, no one can live off of $10 an hour and expect to pull 40/hr weeks of constant ridicule and keep a happy face through it all. Another example of exploitation was in the article of the WoW gold farmers. These kids to adults range from 16 to players in their 30's who do nothing all day except play a video game for roughly $0.25 an hour. They have the option of working out in the fields with their parents or in the factories around dangerous machinery, but instead are put at health risk by playing from 12-18 hours a day to make a gold company richer through virtual (intellectual) property. They're expected to do this kind of "work" as worker bees do, they just grind grind grind away and help make the company wealthier as they are barely making it by. All of this comes back to the big topic at hand, when an economy is growing or in a recession, there is still a need for people and a need for people to fill in jobs that are available. As is known in this world, no business can function without "worker bees", the ones that do all the grunt work and keep things afloat so the company can continually make money daily. In the Mosco reading, he was stating how the economy was low at the time and that things seemed shakey. Well China's economy at one point was shakey, but there were factories, and businesses that outsourced worked because it was cheaper and gave low wages to those willing to take it so that companies could survive and continue propspering. In the end, companies will always be giving away jobs that take hours and in return give dollars (Hours for Dollars), and by some means work the jobs so they in turn work in a companies favor. (Cost must always be lower than profit in a business)