2011年9月30日金曜日
Supersonic/Electronic Weapon 不特定多数による長期にわたる原因不明の嫌がらせ（６）
2011/09/30 (Fri) Slept from 1:00-8:00 (7 hrs). Very strong shocks on my head when falling asleep, one of which twitched my mouth. Game or car blast noise outside. A private lesson at Shibuya branch from 16:30-17:50.
2011年9月29日木曜日
Supersonic/Electronic Weapon 不特定多数による長期にわたる原因不明の嫌がらせ（６）
2011/09/29 (Thu) On the evening of 28th, a man, 160 -165 cm tall and muscular, approached when I was putting garbage in the bin in front of my building, noticing the day was wrong, and as I push the pin number of the auto-lock of the gate he stopped walking and stood a couple meters behind me. I thought he was one of the people who live in the same apartment building and left the door open when I go in because I thought that was the good manner although I had to fight the urge to shut the door to his face due to harassments I have experienced. Then when I walked a couple steps, he whistled nastily.
The funny feeling in my head and teeth which usually happens only after I concentrate on doing something like doing dishes or working on PC, happened when I was drying my hair after bath. I moved to the front door, where the feeling seems to lessen, dried my hair, feeling normal, came back to my bedroom, and felt that feeling again. The feeling has lasted over half an hour as I sat in front of my PC. A loud male voice talking in the next room was heard for around 20 minutes. Now it is quiet at 0:31. And now the noise which sounds like a computer game or car blast started in the next room.
Now it’s 1:02 and the funny feeling has stopped, which I noticed 10 minutes ago. No game sound, either. (I have been sitting in front of my PC since I made the last note. The game sound returned. (1:04)
When brushing my teeth in the bathroom, a noise and vibration which sounded like a bus or truck engine came from the next room that vibrated the floor of the bathroom several times. I checked the bedroom but there were no such noise or vibration.
1:30: When I was watching a funny YouTube video with a sound, suddenly I felt like having been hit on the head and felt dizzy. It was like my whole brain swayed.
From my experience, I have a feeling that I will be harassed almost all night with violent attacks.
2011/09/29 (Thu) Slept from 1:30-4:00 + 4:30-8:30 (2:5+4 hrs). Incessant strong electric shocks into my brain, each of which sounded shoooh in my brain as if all my nerves were caught by an electric current, when I was falling asleep and sleeping. At least one fit of my finger. At 4:00, woke or woken up and heard someone moving around in the next room. Also a noise to move something. Trying to sleep again in the same incessant electric assaults when I heard someone leaving the next room. I opened my window facing the street and saw a young male, around 175 cm tall with short hair and footballer type shoulders wearing a white T-shirt with 10 on the back and carrying a bag with its strap across his back, walking away. I thought of taking his picture with my mobile but since I am not used to using the function I wasn’t able to take any. The male was different from the one who offended me last night, who was wearing a suit. After this, the assault seemed to have stopped because I had no problem in sleeping again and I do not remember being attacked while I was sleeping.
Did not feel dizzy when I got up although felt tired. Funny feeling while doing dishes and working on PC including right now typing this record at 12:13.
Worked at Funabashi branch from 15:00-16:25 for a private lesson. Slept sitting with arms holding my knees for 10-20 minutes after eating late lunch at home in the evening.
The funny feeling in my head and teeth which usually happens only after I concentrate on doing something like doing dishes or working on PC, happened when I was drying my hair after bath. I moved to the front door, where the feeling seems to lessen, dried my hair, feeling normal, came back to my bedroom, and felt that feeling again. The feeling has lasted over half an hour as I sat in front of my PC. A loud male voice talking in the next room was heard for around 20 minutes. Now it is quiet at 0:31. And now the noise which sounds like a computer game or car blast started in the next room.
Now it’s 1:02 and the funny feeling has stopped, which I noticed 10 minutes ago. No game sound, either. (I have been sitting in front of my PC since I made the last note. The game sound returned. (1:04)
When brushing my teeth in the bathroom, a noise and vibration which sounded like a bus or truck engine came from the next room that vibrated the floor of the bathroom several times. I checked the bedroom but there were no such noise or vibration.
1:30: When I was watching a funny YouTube video with a sound, suddenly I felt like having been hit on the head and felt dizzy. It was like my whole brain swayed.
From my experience, I have a feeling that I will be harassed almost all night with violent attacks.
2011/09/29 (Thu) Slept from 1:30-4:00 + 4:30-8:30 (2:5+4 hrs). Incessant strong electric shocks into my brain, each of which sounded shoooh in my brain as if all my nerves were caught by an electric current, when I was falling asleep and sleeping. At least one fit of my finger. At 4:00, woke or woken up and heard someone moving around in the next room. Also a noise to move something. Trying to sleep again in the same incessant electric assaults when I heard someone leaving the next room. I opened my window facing the street and saw a young male, around 175 cm tall with short hair and footballer type shoulders wearing a white T-shirt with 10 on the back and carrying a bag with its strap across his back, walking away. I thought of taking his picture with my mobile but since I am not used to using the function I wasn’t able to take any. The male was different from the one who offended me last night, who was wearing a suit. After this, the assault seemed to have stopped because I had no problem in sleeping again and I do not remember being attacked while I was sleeping.
Did not feel dizzy when I got up although felt tired. Funny feeling while doing dishes and working on PC including right now typing this record at 12:13.
Worked at Funabashi branch from 15:00-16:25 for a private lesson. Slept sitting with arms holding my knees for 10-20 minutes after eating late lunch at home in the evening.
Supersonic/Electronic Weapon 不特定多数による長期にわたる原因不明の嫌がらせ（６）
2011/09/29 (Thu) On the evening of 28th, a man, 160 -165 cm tall and muscular, approached when I was putting garbage in the bin in front of my building, noticing the day was wrong, and as I push the pin number of the auto-lock of the gate he stopped walking and stood a couple meters behind me. I thought he was one of the people who live in the same apartment building and left the door open when I go in because I thought that was the good manner although I had to fight the urge to shut the door to his face due to harassments I have experienced. Then when I walked a couple steps, he whistled nastily.
The funny feeling in my head and teeth which usually happens only after I concentrate on doing something like doing dishes or working on PC, happened when I was drying my hair after bath. I moved to the front door, where the feeling seems to lessen, dried my hair, feeling normal, came back to my bedroom, and felt that feeling again. The feeling has lasted over half an hour as I sat in front of my PC. A loud male voice talking in the next room was heard for around 20 minutes. Now it is quiet at 0:31. And now the noise which sounds like a computer game or car blast started in the next room.
Now it’s 1:02 and the funny feeling has stopped, which I noticed 10 minutes ago. No game sound, either. (I have been sitting in front of my PC since I made the last note. The game sound returned. (1:04)
When brushing my teeth in the bathroom, a noise and vibration which sounded like a bus or truck engine came from the next room that vibrated the floor of the bathroom several times. I checked the bedroom but there were no such noise or vibration.
1:30: When I was watching a funny YouTube video with a sound, suddenly I felt like having been hit on the head and felt dizzy. It was like my whole brain swayed.
From my experience, I have a feeling that I will be harassed almost all night with violent attacks.
The funny feeling in my head and teeth which usually happens only after I concentrate on doing something like doing dishes or working on PC, happened when I was drying my hair after bath. I moved to the front door, where the feeling seems to lessen, dried my hair, feeling normal, came back to my bedroom, and felt that feeling again. The feeling has lasted over half an hour as I sat in front of my PC. A loud male voice talking in the next room was heard for around 20 minutes. Now it is quiet at 0:31. And now the noise which sounds like a computer game or car blast started in the next room.
Now it’s 1:02 and the funny feeling has stopped, which I noticed 10 minutes ago. No game sound, either. (I have been sitting in front of my PC since I made the last note. The game sound returned. (1:04)
When brushing my teeth in the bathroom, a noise and vibration which sounded like a bus or truck engine came from the next room that vibrated the floor of the bathroom several times. I checked the bedroom but there were no such noise or vibration.
1:30: When I was watching a funny YouTube video with a sound, suddenly I felt like having been hit on the head and felt dizzy. It was like my whole brain swayed.
From my experience, I have a feeling that I will be harassed almost all night with violent attacks.
2011年9月28日水曜日
Supersonic/Electronic Weapon 不特定多数による長期にわたる原因不明の嫌がらせ（６）
2011/09/27 (Tue) Slept from 4:00-9:00 (5 hrs). Kept awake till odd hours partly because of attacks and partly because of personal reason. Funny feeling like being attacked by pulses in my head and teeth when doing dishes and working on PC.
2011/09/28 (Wed) Slept from 0:00-4:30 + 5:00-9:30 (4.5 + 4.5 hrs). Strong attacks that felt like my head having hiccups when going to sleep. Woken up by a game or car blast like noise that seemed to come from outside and a violent, loud motorcycle noise that drove towards my neighborhood and stopped about 30 meters from my apartment building at 4:30.
Hicup-like attacks on my head kept coming when I was trying to sleep and while I was in sleep. Felt like my head had had a hiccup when woke up and my body heavy when got up. Pulse like funny feeling when doing dishes, which I stopped in the middle and stayed away from the sink for a while and resumed after the feeling was gone, and the pulse-like funny feeling came back right after I started dishes again.
Funny feelings came while working on PC and at desk, both when I was concentrating. After concentrating for a while, I noticed my teeth and the upper middle part of my brain felt funny. And in both cases, I heard noises like someone moving behind the wall in the next room. When I moved from my desk to PC to add this record, the noise followed to the area closest to my PC.
2011/09/28 (Wed) Slept from 0:00-4:30 + 5:00-9:30 (4.5 + 4.5 hrs). Strong attacks that felt like my head having hiccups when going to sleep. Woken up by a game or car blast like noise that seemed to come from outside and a violent, loud motorcycle noise that drove towards my neighborhood and stopped about 30 meters from my apartment building at 4:30.
Hicup-like attacks on my head kept coming when I was trying to sleep and while I was in sleep. Felt like my head had had a hiccup when woke up and my body heavy when got up. Pulse like funny feeling when doing dishes, which I stopped in the middle and stayed away from the sink for a while and resumed after the feeling was gone, and the pulse-like funny feeling came back right after I started dishes again.
Funny feelings came while working on PC and at desk, both when I was concentrating. After concentrating for a while, I noticed my teeth and the upper middle part of my brain felt funny. And in both cases, I heard noises like someone moving behind the wall in the next room. When I moved from my desk to PC to add this record, the noise followed to the area closest to my PC.
2011年9月27日火曜日
Supersonic/Electronic Weapon 不特定多数による長期にわたる原因不明の嫌がらせ（６）
2011/09/27 I’m writing this because attacks kept me awake till 4:00 am.
Over the last few days, I switch sides on my bed when going to sleep at least once to escape from electric shocks. While I was typing the following notes, electric shocks seem to have been coming because now I have a funny feeling in my head which I did not when I started making this record.
Once between 19th and 24th, when I was practicing English speaking, I thought felt a weak electric shocks and placed two magnets. They pointed to me. I did not find it strange because I thought the side I was sitting was North. However, the next day and every day after that, magnets point 30 degrees away from the point it was on the first day I tried.
Here are the notes I took over the last 8 days.
2011/09/19 (Mon) Slept from 1:00-6:30 + 7:00-11:30 (5.5 + 4.5 hrs). fits on fingers and legs, a few weak electronic shocks on head. Strong dizziness when woke up.
2011/09/20 (Tue) Slept from 2:00-7:00 + 7:30-10:30 (5+8hrs). Weak shocks on head. Noises in my head loud and unable to walk straight when woke up.
2011/09/21 (Wed) Slept 2:00-5:30 + 6:00-10:30 (3.5 + 4.5 hrs). A little strong shocks on head several times. Noises in my head loud, unable to walk straight, funny feelings in my teeth when woke up. Funny feeling in my teeth and head when washing the dishes after breakfast.
2011/09/22 (Thu) Slept from 1:00-10:00 (9 hrs). A little strong shocks a few times, one of which shut my jaw. Funny feelings and feeling of after concussion when doing the dishes in the morning and after my private lesson at Funabashi branch.
2011/09/23 (Fri) Slept from 2:00-5:00 + 6:00-10:00 (3+4 hrs). Strong shocks on my head several times. Put my head on the other side of my bed and electric shocks caused fits on my legs and shutting of my mouth with sudden breath and voice. Funny feelings of my teeth when washing the dishes. When went out to a supermarket, feeling of concussion lasted all the time.
2011/09/24 (Sat) Slept from 1:00-6:00 + 7:50-9:30 (5+1.5 hrs). Strong shocks on head when going to sleep. A game noise woke me up at 6:00. Noises in my head loud. Old male coughing loud in front of my apartment building when going to sleep again.
2011/09/25 (Sun) Slept from 1:00-5:00 + 6:00-10:00 (4+4 hrs). Strong shocks on my head. Fits on my hand. Noises in my head loud when woke up.
2011/09/26 (Mon) Slept from 1:00-5:00 + 6:00-9:30 (‘4+3.5 hrs). A little strong and weak shock on head. Noises in my head loud when woke up. Headache when woke up which I usually have when I breath in tobacco smoke and after I opened the window, the headache stopped in 20 minutes. I took medicine but it usually works in more than 30 minutes.
Over the last few days, I switch sides on my bed when going to sleep at least once to escape from electric shocks. While I was typing the following notes, electric shocks seem to have been coming because now I have a funny feeling in my head which I did not when I started making this record.
Once between 19th and 24th, when I was practicing English speaking, I thought felt a weak electric shocks and placed two magnets. They pointed to me. I did not find it strange because I thought the side I was sitting was North. However, the next day and every day after that, magnets point 30 degrees away from the point it was on the first day I tried.
Here are the notes I took over the last 8 days.
2011/09/19 (Mon) Slept from 1:00-6:30 + 7:00-11:30 (5.5 + 4.5 hrs). fits on fingers and legs, a few weak electronic shocks on head. Strong dizziness when woke up.
2011/09/20 (Tue) Slept from 2:00-7:00 + 7:30-10:30 (5+8hrs). Weak shocks on head. Noises in my head loud and unable to walk straight when woke up.
2011/09/21 (Wed) Slept 2:00-5:30 + 6:00-10:30 (3.5 + 4.5 hrs). A little strong shocks on head several times. Noises in my head loud, unable to walk straight, funny feelings in my teeth when woke up. Funny feeling in my teeth and head when washing the dishes after breakfast.
2011/09/22 (Thu) Slept from 1:00-10:00 (9 hrs). A little strong shocks a few times, one of which shut my jaw. Funny feelings and feeling of after concussion when doing the dishes in the morning and after my private lesson at Funabashi branch.
2011/09/23 (Fri) Slept from 2:00-5:00 + 6:00-10:00 (3+4 hrs). Strong shocks on my head several times. Put my head on the other side of my bed and electric shocks caused fits on my legs and shutting of my mouth with sudden breath and voice. Funny feelings of my teeth when washing the dishes. When went out to a supermarket, feeling of concussion lasted all the time.
2011/09/24 (Sat) Slept from 1:00-6:00 + 7:50-9:30 (5+1.5 hrs). Strong shocks on head when going to sleep. A game noise woke me up at 6:00. Noises in my head loud. Old male coughing loud in front of my apartment building when going to sleep again.
2011/09/25 (Sun) Slept from 1:00-5:00 + 6:00-10:00 (4+4 hrs). Strong shocks on my head. Fits on my hand. Noises in my head loud when woke up.
2011/09/26 (Mon) Slept from 1:00-5:00 + 6:00-9:30 (‘4+3.5 hrs). A little strong and weak shock on head. Noises in my head loud when woke up. Headache when woke up which I usually have when I breath in tobacco smoke and after I opened the window, the headache stopped in 20 minutes. I took medicine but it usually works in more than 30 minutes.
2011年9月23日金曜日
Class Supplement, TOEFL Essay, Will paper books be unnecessary? -partly rewritten-
Writing Topic
Consider the following statement. Computers can provide all the information that once could be found only in books, and therefore, it will not be long before electronic technology makes books unnecessary. Do you agree or disagree with this idea? Support your response by including specific reasons and examples.
Hints for Points
Agree: information search … more efficient / thousands of books in an electronic reader / many functions that allow quicker and better learning
Disagree: no need for electricity / some information that cannot be digitized (copy right, when the book itself provides information) / more reliable information
Paragraph Development
Paragraph development is a key to making your essay convincing. If a paragraph has only one sentence or two, it lacks some essential sentences such as supporting details (background information), or the main idea. A sample of a paragraph development is as follows:
【Main Idea】 To represent the paragraph briefly
【Explanation】 To show exactly what you mean by the main idea
【Detail / Example】 To provide a specific example
【Follow up】 To make up for some information lacking in the example
【Conclusion】 To wrap up the paragraph
Sample paragraph development:
【Main Idea】 E-books will make learning more efficient.
【Explanation】 Their functions will help faster and more active learning.
【Detail / Example】 For example, by pointing a word you do not know, the dictionary installed in the electronic reader will tell you the definition of the word. You can also refer to the related information of a particular person or event, often accompanied by sound, picture, and video. With the help of these functions, you can learn more quickly, actively and instinctively.
【Follow up】 It is true that to have a deeper understanding of a subject, you might need to read some books, but digitized books help form a general idea of a topic efficiently.
【Conclusion】 It will not be long before school provides students with tablets instead of textbooks.
☆Your test paragraph development:
【Main Idea】
【Explanation】
【Detail / Example】
【Follow up】
【Conclusion】
Essay for Ideas and Expressions
I do not have the impression that books will soon become antiques that you seldom see in your daily lives, at least in lives of people who read.
Technically, computers and electronic readers can replace books in the near future. In terms of information search, it is usually much more efficient to use computers than it is to go to the library or subscribe to a paper newspaper or two; books that purely provide information such as dictionaries and encyclopedias have almost gone extinct. Tablets and electronic readers have displays pretty close to the surface of book pages and allow flipping. It might not be long before functions for flipping through, underlining, or writing in are added. Ultimately, the difference will be literally either paper or electric. And I think here is the answer to this question. Paper books will not become totally unnecessary because they exist in the non-virtual world.
First, libraries will keep paper books even though they have been digitizing as many books as possible over decades. Paper books are important resources because of their feature as tangible objects that are ready to be read any time if you just pick them up and open them. Computers need electricity. For fear of blackouts, cyber-terrorism, or accidents that will disable access to or cause damage on digital archive, hard copies will always be kept in libraries and archives. Paper books to human knowledge will be what bankbooks are to our accounts. No one would say that bankbooks are unnecessary.
In private libraries, books might gradually disappear but will never be “unnecessary.” Digital books occupy no space and this is attractive for most of us, who do not live in a mansion. Therefore, natural selection, in fact the owner’s selection, of books in our bookshelves which is always at work will be accelerated as many more cheaper digitalized versions will be available. But I think some books will remain, those books to which you have some personal attachment. They are in your shelf as proof of your life itself. It is hard to imagine readers throwing away their favorite books and downloading e-books of the same titles. I do not think they will no matter how small apartments they live in. And some of their books will establish the same kind of relationship with the next owners after their death, and this will be repeated until they are worn out and naturally perish. It would take long for all paper books to disappear this way, and they will just disappear, treasured by someone till the last moment. Therefore, paper books will never become unnecessary.
The substantial presence of books will be necessary in a digitized society. Paper books will be preserved forever as the originals. Good books will always be loved and needed by their owners until someday they are not available in print, and probably some special books such as the Bible, the Koran, or Bruce Springsteen’s biography, whose existence is indispensable for many people, will always be in demand.
Consider the following statement. Computers can provide all the information that once could be found only in books, and therefore, it will not be long before electronic technology makes books unnecessary. Do you agree or disagree with this idea? Support your response by including specific reasons and examples.
Hints for Points
Agree: information search … more efficient / thousands of books in an electronic reader / many functions that allow quicker and better learning
Disagree: no need for electricity / some information that cannot be digitized (copy right, when the book itself provides information) / more reliable information
Paragraph Development
Paragraph development is a key to making your essay convincing. If a paragraph has only one sentence or two, it lacks some essential sentences such as supporting details (background information), or the main idea. A sample of a paragraph development is as follows:
【Main Idea】 To represent the paragraph briefly
【Explanation】 To show exactly what you mean by the main idea
【Detail / Example】 To provide a specific example
【Follow up】 To make up for some information lacking in the example
【Conclusion】 To wrap up the paragraph
Sample paragraph development:
【Main Idea】 E-books will make learning more efficient.
【Explanation】 Their functions will help faster and more active learning.
【Detail / Example】 For example, by pointing a word you do not know, the dictionary installed in the electronic reader will tell you the definition of the word. You can also refer to the related information of a particular person or event, often accompanied by sound, picture, and video. With the help of these functions, you can learn more quickly, actively and instinctively.
【Follow up】 It is true that to have a deeper understanding of a subject, you might need to read some books, but digitized books help form a general idea of a topic efficiently.
【Conclusion】 It will not be long before school provides students with tablets instead of textbooks.
☆Your test paragraph development:
【Main Idea】
【Explanation】
【Detail / Example】
【Follow up】
【Conclusion】
Essay for Ideas and Expressions
I do not have the impression that books will soon become antiques that you seldom see in your daily lives, at least in lives of people who read.
Technically, computers and electronic readers can replace books in the near future. In terms of information search, it is usually much more efficient to use computers than it is to go to the library or subscribe to a paper newspaper or two; books that purely provide information such as dictionaries and encyclopedias have almost gone extinct. Tablets and electronic readers have displays pretty close to the surface of book pages and allow flipping. It might not be long before functions for flipping through, underlining, or writing in are added. Ultimately, the difference will be literally either paper or electric. And I think here is the answer to this question. Paper books will not become totally unnecessary because they exist in the non-virtual world.
First, libraries will keep paper books even though they have been digitizing as many books as possible over decades. Paper books are important resources because of their feature as tangible objects that are ready to be read any time if you just pick them up and open them. Computers need electricity. For fear of blackouts, cyber-terrorism, or accidents that will disable access to or cause damage on digital archive, hard copies will always be kept in libraries and archives. Paper books to human knowledge will be what bankbooks are to our accounts. No one would say that bankbooks are unnecessary.
In private libraries, books might gradually disappear but will never be “unnecessary.” Digital books occupy no space and this is attractive for most of us, who do not live in a mansion. Therefore, natural selection, in fact the owner’s selection, of books in our bookshelves which is always at work will be accelerated as many more cheaper digitalized versions will be available. But I think some books will remain, those books to which you have some personal attachment. They are in your shelf as proof of your life itself. It is hard to imagine readers throwing away their favorite books and downloading e-books of the same titles. I do not think they will no matter how small apartments they live in. And some of their books will establish the same kind of relationship with the next owners after their death, and this will be repeated until they are worn out and naturally perish. It would take long for all paper books to disappear this way, and they will just disappear, treasured by someone till the last moment. Therefore, paper books will never become unnecessary.
The substantial presence of books will be necessary in a digitized society. Paper books will be preserved forever as the originals. Good books will always be loved and needed by their owners until someday they are not available in print, and probably some special books such as the Bible, the Koran, or Bruce Springsteen’s biography, whose existence is indispensable for many people, will always be in demand.
2011年9月18日日曜日
Class Supplement, TOEFL Essay, A new factory in your community, Essay for Ideas and Expressions)
Imagine that a company has announced plans to build a large factory in your community. Would you support this addition to your community?
☆Essay for Ideas and Expressions
I would welcome the factory if it is run by a new type of company but strongly reject it if it is owned by the conventional corporation. Although it would seemingly benefit my town mainly because of job creation, a factory owned by the corporation would eventually bring unhappiness to the community and humankind.
In the long run, a corporate-owned factory would harm my community and its environment. By law, a corporation is only responsible to its shareholders, not to the community, and much less to the environment. If calculation shows that it can still make profits even if it has to pay compensation for the damage caused by the production, the corporation just makes the product. As we have seen, factories have polluted the air, water, and soil, and many people have suffered due to defective products.
Outsourcing is another practice to worry about. If the factory is successful, the company wants to expand and it will close the factory to build some in overseas countries where cheap labor forces are available. If this happens, not to speak of the plight of the people who are exploited there in the third world, my town will be full of the unemployed. This has happened in America over the last 20 years. The result is a bunch of ghost towns and the crushed middle class. Tight economy and harsh global market competition, plus very expensive personnel costs of my country Japan, can transform even a paternalistic Japanese company into a ruthless, money-hungry machine. It is sensible to suspect the possibility of future offshoring of the factory.
Moreover, the corporation could close even a most productive factory for profits. For example, if the product the factory turns out is abundant in the market, the company could stop manufacturing it to prevent its price from falling down, just as extra crops such as oranges are discarded to manipulate the market prices, when many people are starving, as depicted in The Grapes of Wrath half a century ago and is being done right at this moment somewhere on this planet.
A new type of company that I would be pleased to invite to my town is one of employee ownership. I myself have no desire to own a company, but, in theory, I think this system will make our lives better. Employee ownership allows all employees literally participate in policy making. This would drive the factory to the right direction even though the majority is not always right. For instance, considering most ordinary citizens are concerned about environmental issues while many large companies are still denying the global warming theory for fear of loss caused by policy change, a company where decisions are made by workers’ majority vote is sure to emit minimum amount of CO2 and easy on the environment in general. Needless to say, the pay gap between the officials and the rank-and-file would be smaller because everyone is the owner of the company. This kind of company is established by people who have values far from money-and-power orientation and therefore, my town would be livelier with people respecting and supporting each other.
A company as a tool for extra-income of a few super-rich people is not welcome, while a company of the ordinary people, by the ordinary people, for the ordinary people is a great welcome. Increase of factories operated by this type of companies would drastically change society.
☆Essay for Ideas and Expressions
I would welcome the factory if it is run by a new type of company but strongly reject it if it is owned by the conventional corporation. Although it would seemingly benefit my town mainly because of job creation, a factory owned by the corporation would eventually bring unhappiness to the community and humankind.
In the long run, a corporate-owned factory would harm my community and its environment. By law, a corporation is only responsible to its shareholders, not to the community, and much less to the environment. If calculation shows that it can still make profits even if it has to pay compensation for the damage caused by the production, the corporation just makes the product. As we have seen, factories have polluted the air, water, and soil, and many people have suffered due to defective products.
Outsourcing is another practice to worry about. If the factory is successful, the company wants to expand and it will close the factory to build some in overseas countries where cheap labor forces are available. If this happens, not to speak of the plight of the people who are exploited there in the third world, my town will be full of the unemployed. This has happened in America over the last 20 years. The result is a bunch of ghost towns and the crushed middle class. Tight economy and harsh global market competition, plus very expensive personnel costs of my country Japan, can transform even a paternalistic Japanese company into a ruthless, money-hungry machine. It is sensible to suspect the possibility of future offshoring of the factory.
Moreover, the corporation could close even a most productive factory for profits. For example, if the product the factory turns out is abundant in the market, the company could stop manufacturing it to prevent its price from falling down, just as extra crops such as oranges are discarded to manipulate the market prices, when many people are starving, as depicted in The Grapes of Wrath half a century ago and is being done right at this moment somewhere on this planet.
A new type of company that I would be pleased to invite to my town is one of employee ownership. I myself have no desire to own a company, but, in theory, I think this system will make our lives better. Employee ownership allows all employees literally participate in policy making. This would drive the factory to the right direction even though the majority is not always right. For instance, considering most ordinary citizens are concerned about environmental issues while many large companies are still denying the global warming theory for fear of loss caused by policy change, a company where decisions are made by workers’ majority vote is sure to emit minimum amount of CO2 and easy on the environment in general. Needless to say, the pay gap between the officials and the rank-and-file would be smaller because everyone is the owner of the company. This kind of company is established by people who have values far from money-and-power orientation and therefore, my town would be livelier with people respecting and supporting each other.
A company as a tool for extra-income of a few super-rich people is not welcome, while a company of the ordinary people, by the ordinary people, for the ordinary people is a great welcome. Increase of factories operated by this type of companies would drastically change society.
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