Disney: The Happiest Place on Earth?

by Elly27 in Activism, June 11, 2009

Welcome to Magic Kingdom where good prevails over evil and everyone lives happily ever after. This is a place most people associate with good wholesome family values, a nice community, a safe environment and an exemplary lifestyle. However, as you look closely, you will see that Disney is a corporation which explains how the rich get richer, and the poor stay poor. Disney, unfortunately, is a classic example of Karl Marx reflection of the world. Marx predicted in the mid-1800s that society will forever be capitalistic, unless workers unite and overthrow their bosses. Hopefully this revolution will happen soon, as conditions in Disney are only getting worse.

Marx was correct in his assertions about the capitalistic world. Disney shows clear ruthless and immoral behavior. They have presented that the only thing that is important to them is the bottom line, while trying to create different ways to increase the rate of exploitation of their workers. They still hold to slave and children labor at their industries, which can be found all over the world including in North America. The bosses at Disney are getting richer while the poor have pitiful wages and live in horrible conditions. Yet, when Disney makes more money, it is spent in monopolizing mass media across the world and building new towns where other sources of media cannot be found. In this sense, Disney epitomizes Marx theories.

Marx was right about Disney for the most part. He commented on employees being exploited and bosses becoming richer. He said that managers would always try to increase the rate of exploitation, disregarding that their workers are actual people. He also said that the exploitation would lead to more money for the bosses, which will be recycled back into the venture. This is seen with Disney as it dominates mass media today. Marx predicted that companies in a capitalist society will try to monopolize the world, which Disney has clearly done by owning its own town. All the while, Marx suggested, workers feel like they are inhuman and suffer. Just think that while you are reading this, these kids are working for their twenty-eight cents a day.

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