What Shouldn’t be For Sale?
In the article “What Isn’t For Sale?,” author Micheal J. Sandel illustrates we as human in society must be keep “debate” in order to vote for what should belong and what must buy and sale in the economy market. Sandel asserts most of the things in this world now can buy and sale by money; well some should be for sale, but not all. He brings up some example such as, A prison- cell upgrade, your doctor cellphone number, and access to the carpool lane while driving solo. He suggests that all these things shouldn’t be up for sale, most people not able to pay for all these items, even though their shouldn’t be for sale. Sandel explains if someone wants to make extra money to live better and inequality is more important
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In the end, he concludes we as human in this society must be aware of prices that we pay for social and economical goods.
I believe our classmates should be agree with Micheal J. Sandel ideas because we should have the public debate in our society to decide where market should be and what should be sale and buy.
One of the Sandel’s argument is we have to question ourselves, how we should value goods.
He announces health, family life, education, and civic duties cannot be value in economical market. This is true reason because thinking about marketing and how prices might change our behavior in the environment. We must purchase our goods in marketing; however, now everything can be purchase by spending money for it. This became habit and caused change economical market to society market. society market affected on health and education more than others. Health is one of the most important needs in all the world. In the most places people
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should have private health insurance or have money to be seeing by doctor, however, most people cannot afford this.
Also, marketing have effected in education area. As we know we live in era that
Almost without realizing it, argues Sandel, we are gone from “having a market economy to being a market
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...n the companies will have to decrease the price otherwise the product will not be sold at higher prices and the revenue would not be as large as companies would like to.