This reminds me of how concern over social issues problems eventually fades away at a rate of time. It might be trending on twitter for a whole month but by the next month or so, its reach have gone down terribly and so most of the problems aren't solved, as problems cannot be solve in a matter of month or so. It is frustrating confronting so much power without resources, safety nets to back them up once they get screwed over, and little support from other nations and people as well. How then can we solve these problems? How deep rooted in the system are the causes of these problems?

I think that it is worth noting how desperation, starvation and hunger pushes people into jobs that they don't like, is difficult to do because often times, they don't have any other choice. Globalization had indeed given jobs all throughout the world through trade and market but it is a trend how human rights are often violated in the process and in such a large scale as well. And, although modern slavery in sweatshop factories also exist in the US, who benefits the most from globalization? It is the billionaires, millionaires, with a monopoly of companies and business spread throughout the world.

I definitely agree with this statement. Especially with coffee being "almost classified as a status symbol" - but in other ways, like a social class symbol. Coming from the Philippines, Starbucks is so expensive ranging from PH250 to PH500 and the minimum wage for working class a day is PH500. But, in the US, it is much more affordable for $5 and the hustle culture in the city is so much more normalized especially in Los Angeles where Starbucks is everywhere. However, that is not to say that there are no affordable good coffees in the Philippines because one could even argue that local coffee shops are better in taste and affordable. So, why is Starbucks, a foreign company in the Philippines only mostly cater to middle-class working families despite them getting their coffee beans from Asia-Pacific and Latin American countries? How does globalization impact influx in prices, labor and wage?

this sentence stood out to me because it reminds me of how the re-branding of coffee is quite similar to branding of other farm products like rice, oranges, avocados, apples etc. Most of the time we, as consumers don't really think about where a product came from or whose labor was put into it. Which company employed these people? Are they paid, or underpaid? Are we buying locally? But, I recognize as well how there is a slow shift into paying more attention to these kind of mindset especially in this generation.