![]() ![]() The story thereby demonstrates how capitalism may give employers an unethical amount of power over employees. Alsuga states, “We’ll need someone between a rock and a hard place” (7). At first, he coerces an employee to do so, and he targets an employee who desperately needs his job in order to support his large family. ![]() Alsuga wishes to hire someone to use unethical, brutal force. Alsuga considers forcing an employee to violently retaliate against the vandals, he chooses an employee with a large family to support Mr. Alsuga ('CivilWarLand in Bad Decline') Importance: In order to deter the teenagers who have been vandalizing the theme park, Mr. Alsuga-is able to coerce his employees into unethical action because the employees are dependent on their paychecks. For example, in “CivilWarLand in Bad Decline,” the park’s unscrupulous owner-Mr. One of the ways in which some of these stories develop this critique is by examining dangerous disparities of wealth and power that capitalism may create. As is the case with much of Saunders’ work, some of the stories in this collection may be interpreted as critiques of capitalism, specifically relating to stories’ illustrations of capitalism’s frequent disregard for human wellbeing. ![]()
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