Sandel's What Isn T For Sale

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According to What Isn’t for Sale, Michael J Sandel states that a special condition that almost everything can be bought and sole happens in our lives. In addition, he explains several actual instances. In Santa Ana, the nonviolent offenders can buy a clean and single jail cell. Moreover, a single mother in Utah was paid $10,000 an online casino to install a permanent tattoo of the casino’s website address on his forehead. These two examples just only the tip of the iceberg. After Sandel states several examples, he begins to talk about the history of marketing. At the beginning of marketing, it was a best way to exchange the product we need , which enjoyed unrivaled prestige. However, because of the greed, led to irresponsible risk taking. Therefore, …show more content…

There are several groups of audience for the article of What Isn’t for Sale, such as, businessman, people who care about the society, government and American. What Isn’t for Sale, talking the marking environment, mainly writes to the businessman. According to What Isn’t for Sale, “ An era of market triumphalism has began in the early 1980s.” In addition, he states, “ when Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher proclaimed their conviction that markets, not government, held the key to prosperity and freedom.” All of these information are talking about the marketing, and I think only the businessman can get the point from these examples. In addition, Sandel explains several economic crisis because he wants to compare the different from early marketing and current marketing. In his article, she also said, “It also prompted a widespread sense that markets have become detached from morals, and that we need to somehow reconnect the two.” Sandel tries to warn the businessman that controlling their greedy and protecting the marketing …show more content…

In my opinion, there are two mains purpose of this article, which is warning the people and encouraging the people join in the debate. At the beginning of the article, Sandel talks about a lot of unnormal product which can be bought and sold in the marketing. And than, he states that some economic crisis happening in this few years. Finally, he tries to explain the reason why the economic is unstable recently. He said that, “Some say the moral failing at the heart of market triumphalism was greed, which led to irresponsible risk-taking.” In her opinion, greed is the nature of people, but people have to control it. Therefore, he tried to warn the people who work in the marketing to control their greed. On the other hands, Sandel wants to encourage more and more people to join in the debate by this article. In her opinion, criticizing in the public is the best way to deal with this problem. According to his article, “ A debate about the moral limits of markets would enable us to decide, as a society, where markets serve the public good and where they do not belong.” In addition, people get used to avoid to criticize the other people’s action. The most famous sentence is That is not my business. However, Sandel want to use his article to change people’s idea, and encourage people to make a action. As a result, the purpose of this article is very clearly,

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