Michael Sandel's 'What Isn T For Sale'?

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As the economic grows rapidly, market has occupied our life, and has become impartible with market. Whereas, market has become more and more influential and wild coveraged. Since almost everything in daily life could be labeled with a price for commercial purpose, market brings us not only the positive impact like it makes our life much more convenient and connected, but also some implicit impact that gradually influences us in the negative ways. While some of the market ways even violate basic human rights. Since United Nations publish the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”, it stated basic rights for every human being that can not be violated no matter what. But as market grows stronger and more influential day by day, it somehow gives negative impact to human and encroaches some of the human rights, even the market did not cause it purposely.

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