Freakonomics

Freakonomics was a very interesting movie. It talked about how names might determine the outcome of the rest of your life, it talked about how there was corruption inside sumo, and the movie talked about and incentives that people have when they want something. Each of these ideas from the movie is a bigger part that takes over our world today. For example when they talk about corruption in sumo wrestling this can be a smaller picture of a bigger one. the example I think that of the sumo is probably the corruption in the government, because the US government have people worked inside the companies that there suppose to be passing laws aginast them. So the government is trying to protect the establishment instead of trying protect the people that pay taxes. The incentives of people is money that's what I got out of that segment of the movie because in the film the students that didn't do well in school the schools had to pay them to get better grades, but the movie was saying that people need an incentive to do something. Well if only money drives you to do well in ice thentheres something wrong and probably grow up to be corrupt like the politicanins in our government. The last segment they talked about names. In the film they were talking about how names determine the rest of your life. There were to economist that studied this and the first one said that names don't matter it's all about there environment that they live in that dictate the rest of there life, then the second economist they did a experiment and he made two job applications that had a different name and ethnicity but the same college and education and see if how many calls that each person gets, this experiment showed that there were more calls for the person with a white name and a with white ethnicity job more job calls then the other application. In my opinion the economist that did the studies they are both right because the environment and there ethnicity really does matter in life because people are almost brainwashed to do a certain way or think a certain way. When I look back into the film people don't really have answer on how we can change they way we live the people just want the easy way out of life intsead of trying to find and answer.