Labor: Looking at any sort of website that concerns employment, whether it be a college’s career page, indeed, or craigslist will instantly prove to you that a Bachelor's Degree makes an individual much more marketable to employers. Most of the jobs that pay over double the minimum wage either require multiple years of experience in the field or a Bachelor’s Degree. Maybe twenty or thirty years ago, an individual could graduate from high school and settle down in a career without having to go to college or a trade school. However, due to increased demand of labor around the world, a Bachelor’s Degree is required for most jobs that lead to stable careers. Not to say that not going to college would lead one to live a life full of precarity, …show more content…
Specifically, she focuses on the influx of technological advances that have helped humans self monitor health metrics from heart rate, distance traveled, and even blood sugar. All of these new sorts of technical advances have given those who are fortunate enough to adapt to the technology, a chance to really be …show more content…
Those with substantial financial resources are not only able to self report their health with new technologies, but are also prone to having much more coverage in their health insurance policies, and can get the best medicine available. In places around the globe, including the United States, health is not considered a human right. Sure there are examples of universal health care and socialized medicine in many European and Scandinavian countries. As for the rest of the world, health has come to be seen as a privilege, and less of a human right.
The reason the concept of global health is so frustrating to talk about, is that the technological advances and systems are readily available in certain parts of the globe but are much more limited in others. This is one aspect of globalization that I believe has been ignored and should really be thought about by everybody. With our technological advances in the past century, we should be able to provide quality and readily available health care to every person on the planet. However, it is still going on in our backyard through the implementation of neoliberal