At first glance, commodities and gifts appear to represent two unique entity as the forms and functions of exchanging them are fundamentally distinct. In the last few decades, as the competition in the market becomes increasingly cutthroat. Companies begin to employ different strategies to differentiate their products from their competitor. Consequently, this blurred the distinction between previously defined concepts of commodity and gifts. This paper will provide a detailed analysis of the characteristics which distinguish gift-exchange from commodity exchange and reveals that the commodity, like the gift, can be used to create certain types of social bonds and mutual obligation between parties and also possess a quality of the giver as well as manifest a form of inalienability from the giver. Commodity exchange was known to be lacking almost all social or personal considerations. The objective of purchasing a commodity is not motivated by the desire to have a strong and lasting relationship with the seller, it is motivated by the desire to own the commodity. However, is that always the case? Compared to several decades ago, companies are becoming more inclined …show more content…
As mentioned earlier, companies try to enlist their customers into a lasting relationship and once they have established a long-term relationship with its customers, it has a variety of social obligations that the relationship brings. These obligations include sustaining the level of quality, service, etc. that their product represents to keep their customer. Likewise, a customer that is highly satisfied develops loyalty and feel obliged and tied to the company. This is because high satisfaction creates an emotional bond with the brand or company. Hence, it is evident that commodity exchange can create mutual obligations between the producer and the consumer, a situation parallel to gift
The court indicates that determining whether something is a gift or not depends on the intention of the transferor (Bogardus v. Commissioner, 302 U.S. 34) and the lack of any legal or moral obligation to make such a payment does not establish that as a gift, especially if the payment proceeds from “the incentive of anticipated benefit” of an economic nature. It is irrelevant if the donor wants the item. The court stated that the motives behind the gift are significant in this case, and the court believes that the car was gifted as a compensation for the past information Berman received and as an investment for the future
Many Europeans, on the other hand, did not experience the expanse of the benefits that Asia did. In document 7, Charles D’Avenant, an English political economist, illustrated the items that were traded between the Asians and Europeans. He described how the Europeans gave Asia silver and in return received many luxury goods such as silks and dyed cloth. These items only fulfilled the wants of the area, but they were never things the Europeans needed. D’Avenant wrote this piece in regards to restricting textiles in trade with Asia, a response to the disadvantages they were experiencing during the time.
“When the Civil War came, the demands for his goods increased dramatically, and Rockefeller found himself amassing a small fortune.” (Source 1 “The New Tycoons- John D. Rockefeller”) Generally, when there are many consumers buying from one company, then that establishment has had people within it using wise business tactics. For the Standard Oil Company, that person was John D. Rockefeller. “He shipped so many goods that railroad companies drooled over the prospect of getting his business.”
The “triangular trade in human flesh” that Yaeger writes about refers to The Middle Passage. The Middle Passage is a voyage that millions of West Africans took to the New World. The commodities described in this quote are commodities that are touched by forced labor from the slaves. Many products that are tainted by slavery are very labor intensive and/or delicate, but as more and more slaves arrive, the less the owners care to keep their current slaves content with their living and working conditions. These slaves transform raw materials that they pick out in fields into commodities for their white owners.
By the sixteenth century, the Ottomans had emerged as one of the most important Empires in Europe, and in the territories known today as the Middle East.” The battle between Habsburgs and Ottomans goes deeper than just a religious versus non-religious logical happenstances. As the two thriving empires, had similar yet diverse ideals when it comes to their political, economic and social structure of the two empires. As many governments are ran mainly by power and money, the Habsurg and Ottoman government was ran by religion. All the while, as both empires used their military to enhance their religion, rich their economy and take part in the slave trade they had similarities and differences like any other country who was at war with eachother.
Trade was one of the key parts in
Have you ever wondered how trading came to be? Today I will answer this question. Type your Claim/Thesis statement in the box: Trade started in the second century BC when civilizations wanted others things, peacefully. The route originated from Chang 'an in the east and ended at the Mediterranean in the west, linking China with the Roman Empire. (A- Map)
In this way one state could help each other’s wants… Carolina, for instance, is inhabited by planters, while Massachusetts is more engaged in commerce and manufactures. Congress has the power of deciding their differences. The friendliest intercourse may therefore be established between them. A diversity of produce, wants and interests, produces commerce; and commerce, where there is a common, equal and moderate authority to preside, produces friendship. (p.
In 1607, the first American settlers settled in Jamestown, where the town had to established company charter to show that the town had permission to exist. In this time period, tobacco was the most profitable crop to buy and trade. Colonists started to trade fur and other goods between each other, which was important to the colony’s development because now they were importing and exporting their own goods between themselves,
The Columbian exchange was a sort of bridge between two very different cultures and, as Alfred W. Crosby said, it was very hard to find any crops that the two civilizations (the Old World and the New World, so to speak) shared. Horses, wheat, pigs, sugar cane, rice, and grape vines -- along with many other things -- could only be found in the Old World. Likewise, corn, sweet potatoes, alpaca, peanuts, and tobacco were all from the New World. Some of these things, wheat, rice, and corn in particular, are staples nowadays and we would be in trouble if something happened to one of those things. As Crosby said, “[Wheat] is one of Europe’s greatest gifts to the Americas”.
[Columbus] probably should have forbidden this exchange, but [he] wanted to take the cotton to Your Highnesses, and it seems to be in abundance. " One big event was when
Although there were unfortunate consequences that occurred from the exchange, it does not lessen the value of the positive aspects that came from the Old
Some of the negative effects of consumerism that many critics may argue and that will be further emphasized on, are the overexploitation of consumerism which has lead to economic poverty, and increase in debts by continuingly increasing already high consumption levels at the expense of less developed or poorer nations. Additionally, environmentalists blame consumerism for the resulting damage it has done to the environment through consumption and wastage of products, as a result cause pollution, land contamination, and forest degradation. Lastly will look upon the effect consumerism can have upon one’s own personal life and how It can result in a pursuit to fulfill the infinite desires of “self”, thus forgetting once moral values and the inability to distinguish right from wrong (“Negative”
We should characterize Columbus and his legacy positively because of the good effects of the Columbian Exchange, which was a descending event of Columbus’ journey. In the Columbian Exchange, crops like corn and potatoes, which have many uses, were traded. Because these crops can grow in almost any setting, they were extremely useful to both the Europeans and the Indians. Many useful grains and livestock were
These gifts remind Offred of how life was back then, when Gilead didn’t exist. Now they are forbidden which is why she craves having these rewards in her hands. These items were supposed to be burned because they aren’t allowed in Gilead. Yet, the Commander owns one and is sharing it with