the world's leading distributor of licensed children's dinnerware and a top producer of trend-focused everyday tableware and eating-on-the-go products, seeks administrative project support for our International Department. This person will coordinate and maintain the product development timeline process between the various departments, licensors and Sara Rose International (our company in the orient) to meet development deadlines.This example was taken from the local newspaper's classified employment advertisement. In its brevity it still tells us why this company need not exist; and that its continued existence is detrimental to the quality and health of the planet. Starting with the concept "children's dinnerware" we immediately discern the underlying capitalistic component that stimulates the greed factor. Do children need dinnerware?? Of course not, why would they. How is it possible that for more than a hundred thousand years, human beings survived just fine without children's dinnerware, and now this "world's leading distributor" is seeking to increase their monopolization of the market share of a product that is not needed?
There are just so many things wrong with this company, and with its profile to produce economic gain at the expense of the earth. Distributing materials is energy intensive and usually inefficient, especially when we are talking about all over the world. We know from the ad, that the company ships from Asia, the products most likely made in China from raw materials generated from immense use, and waste of fossil fuels and minerals. Shipping raw materials in, and finished products out uses vast quantities of energy resources; completely wasted use, and massive planet damage (carbon release) as the products themselves are not needed at all. "Eating-on-the- go" products, in and of themselves, represent the very worst of planetary damage: generating revenue from intentionally marketing a product line that encourages waste in so many forms: energy, fossil fuel, thermo pollution, CFC's, irreducible plastic trash, hazardous and toxic production materials and solvents, etc.
"Everyday tableware" has the ring of something useful and necessary. Unfortunately it also reminds us that this polite euphemism means plastic, rather than recycleable and biodegradeable clay-based products. Again we picture wealthy account executives calculating profits and negotiating trade balances while licensing and distributing toxically manufactured products that will become non-reduceable wastes littering the planet. There is nothing whatsoever sustainable about this company, nor is there anything necessary for it to exist. It is middle men, passing along some designs to generate a flow of capital and profit to them, at the expense of the planet, and without doubt at the health and expense of the lives of those that make the products. It is a company we do not need; it is a company that is in every way despicable and vile.
I could of course also suggest that it is un-amerikan, in that it promotes the manufacturing and production of its products for sale here and around the world, by making sure that the labor costs are paid at the lowest possible rates outside of the US. Not only is this company bad for the planet, but it is bad for the trade imbalance, the US economy, and for US national interests. When we really start looking at what is fundamentally necessary for the sustainability of our communities and the health of our environments, companies such as this are clearly unnecessary and need to be unwelcome. How much better would we all be without it?? We certainly don't need it.
