Paradoxical Socio-Economic Spaces In The United States

When it comes to society, space is referred to as however great or small of a location one prefers. To accommodate for a widely developed locality, we have the United States, which has a paradoxical socio-economic space. The United States in itself can be very conflicting which is what solidifies the act of its confusing role to many. Its role and impact converges when freedom and limitations are being discussed. These conflicting anomalies usually occur between capitalism and democracy. Socio-economics is the conduction of making profit that fails to undermine the integrity of societal obligations. In terms of capitalism, socio-economic spaces like the United States are controlled by big corporations. In order to create socio-economic spaces, these big corporations had obtained so much power that when canals, road, ports and railroads were being built, they were asked by those industries to protected them from the government. Corporations were the ideal protector because they were smaller as opposed to the government who, at the
The United States system is a paradox within itself because they blatantly support both the capitalism and democracy in a society, causing fundamental paradoxes. To openly support both shows that they are “very undemocratic, both in terms of how decisions are made and power is distributed.” (pg. 18) When we side with capitalism, we send a message that the money is more important and how we acquire it does not necessarily mean that everyone involved was considered. The freedom to make money is a top goal in our society but so are the individuals. When we side with democracy, we display a sense of limitations that could potentially protect many more people than it could help the corporations. Being that the United States economic system is free to do both and have limitations in both areas as well, there are unintended impacts that may