Morality of Monopoly in Society

Henry Ford was an American industrialist and the founder of the Ford Motor Company, who stated, “business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets” (Ford). In the corporate world, individual businesses control other corporations in order to improve their own systems and products. On the macroscopic scale, it is comprised of the corporate world; however, examples of monopoly from the corporate world can be translated onto the microscopic scale. The microscopic scale is primarily the community of families in this society. Families and corporations share this similar idea. Parents dictate their children’s development, and within a relationship one gender may show more power and influence on the other. For the most part, the selfish characteristic of society is the manifestation of monopolism and it raises moral and ethical issues because these acts are inconsiderate of the loved ones around them.

To start off on the microscopic scale, parents are an example of using monopolism. For instance, according to the novel Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua, Chinese parents are overbearing their children so they can become the best. The mother character in this book often lists prohibitions that her daughters are not allowed to do. These prohibitions include the restriction to attend sleepovers and choose their own extracurricular activities (Corrigan, Maureen, and Amy Chua).To be more extreme, they promote sexism through the following quote, “not be the #1 student in every subject except gym and drama….. [and not to] play any instrument other than the piano or violin” (Corrigan, Maureen, and Amy Chua). The author emphasized that strict parents can benefit the c...

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...ackdate a prescription for corticosteroids for a saddle sore to explain a positive steroid test result” ( Sinnott). Because Armstrong’s desires to win at the Tour de France, he chose to take steroids to make himself more powerful than his competitors. This is similar to how some businesses cheat by creating monopolies in order to control all the money. Armstrong is like those corporations that make the choice to be more powerful but is morally unethical because it causes inequality of opportunity to others around them.

In conclusion, people around the world are reflecting the same strategies from business such as parents that are over controlling their children, unequal gender responsibilities in marriages, and it can also be found in professional athletes. Ultimately, these all arise from selfishness and their desires to be more powerful than their competitors.