Police Tracking

Controversial situations have always stuck with cops around and across the country. Some instances dealing with police brutality, irrational arrest, and much more law enforcement issues. However, in the TED talk by Catherine Crump, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law Director, Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic Co-Director for Berkeley Law, she sheds the light on a "small and surprisingly dangerous detail the police track about you." Similar to how military-style equipment, such as weapons, are being passed down to small police forces, new surveillance technology is as well. Though, personally, I understand that some of our information is being retained and passed around, I would have never thought about being tracked and watched by the police as if I were a former secret agent. The way that they are doing is by NSA-style mass surveillance which enables local police departments to gather vast quantities of sensitive information about each and every one of us. Hearing about this information truly shocked me a little seeing that local police departments now have in there hands technology that is world changing. It allows them to track location information of every place we have been from either going to school, driving to work, if we went to church or not, and a lot of other supposedly "secret" information. For some reason, I feel that privacy is not a thing anymore unless its relating to something the government is hiding. Honestly, I hope this issue concerning privacy for the public could be resolved, but it looks like we are far from finding any permanent or, at least, long-lasting solutions.

Individual Self-fulfillment (Self-Actualization)

Free expression could have a variety of ways to define it in terms of specifics. The broader definition,, however, refers to the ability in which an individual or group expresses their own beliefs, thoughts, ideas, and emotions concerning different issues free from any government censorship. Inclusively based on individuality, freedom of expression is essential to a person's liberty and directly or indirectly contributes to what the Supreme Court calls the marketplace of ideas. Free expression can be categorized into eight different values: marketplace of ideas, participation in self-government, stable change, individual self fulfillment, check on governmental power, promotion of tolerance, promotion of innovation, protection of dissent. For this blog, individual self-fulfillment will be the main focus when talking about human liberty and freedom of speech.

Individual self-fulfillment, also known as self-actualization, is described as free speech that enables individuals to express themselves. C Edwin Baker explained it stating, "Free speech enables individuals to express themselves and thereby create their own identity - and, in the process perhaps, find kindred spirits. Freedom of speech thus becomes an aspect of human dignity, human agency and autonomy." Clearly, the concept of individual self-fulfillment can be summed up into something I would call purposeful selfhood. Professor C. Edwin Baker justifies this theory saying, "Speech is protected not as a means of a collective good but because of the value of speech conduct to the individual." In this case, freedom of speech is seemly made a right to derisively speak one's mind just for the sake of it being one's mind.

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/998/liberty-modelhttps://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/998/liberty-model

Andrew Carnegie and Vertical Integration

In the time when the steel industry first began in the 1850s and continued to become more recognized and established throughout, there were major players taking control of the field. One of the most renowned people who took the steel industry by storm was Andrew Carnegie.

As a little boy, Carnegie worked in a Pittsburgh cotton factory before he advanced to the position of division superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1859. During his journey, he invested in a variety of ventures that included iron and oil companies, making his first fortune. Moreover, at a young age, Carnegie was a striving entrepreneur, but he really became famous when he amassed a fortune in the steel industry. He started his own company called Carnegie Steel, which soon became the most dominant company due to his very notable and clever strategy: vertical Integration. Vertical integration, according to the Strategic CFO, "is the process or a company's domination of every aspect of the production line or process for a particular product. This means that Carnegie bought different types of companies in order to enhance his company's supply chain, allowing him to not have to rely on a middle man to supply them for him. Prices were now able to be cut and opened a doorway for him to completely assert his dominance in the market.

Although, unlike horizontal integration that increases production of goods or services at the same part of the supply chain, vertical integration created so much of an unbalancing domination that was unfair in the steel industry that it is now illegal, being considered a vertical monopoly. It prevented startup companies or small companies from having a slight chance to make a contribution in the market. That is why today, we see more of horizontal integration than vertical integration.

https://strategiccfo.com/vertical-integration/