I was impressed by Matt`s presentation, and I got interest more in 30 days of TV series. I was wondering how impressive it is and how affect on Matt, and came to want to watch it at any cost. I am a Netflix user, so I went to Netflix at first to check if it is available there. Luckily, Netflix has it at streaming service. When I looked at outline, what I found was that there are 3 seasons from 2005 to 2008, each season has 6 episodes. Each episode is one hour stories. Concept of 30 days is to do something for 30 days, and every topic is different and looks curious for me. So let me share topics and brief summaries with you. If you become interested in 30 days and if you watch it, it is going to be my pleasure. In that case, I highly recommend to stop to read here because if you look at my summaries, then you come to know what happen before you watch it actually.
- Minimum Wage
This is the first episode of 30 days, and Morgan Surlock himself tried to do this trial. For 30 days, he and his fiance tried to work with minimum wage which is guaranteed by lay. They tried to see if they can live with the wage. He worked as a day worker and his fiance worked at a coffee shop for washing dishes. At first, they had to rent a apartment with cheap fee. A apartment which they could rent was relatively cheap and clean, but the location was not safe in terms of crimes, and as they lived, many cockroaches and ants came out. Unfortunately his fiance suffered from a fever and they had to go to a hospital but they did not have insurance because they were supposed to work with minimum wage. Later they figured out that required medical fee was as expensive as they could not afford to pay. (If you have seen a doctor in U.S, you already know how expensive it is even though it is a slight diagnosis. Most part of fee, of course, is covered by your insurance) They felt that if you are alone without any children, then they can managed to live somehow as long as you are fine without diseases and health problems. Otherwise, they can not live, and it is almost like living hell. - Anti Aging
In this episode, one guy tried to do anti aging training. He is in the middle of thirty, and his body is shapeless due to daily life and eating habit. However he used to be swimmer in his high school days and his body looked good with muscle, so he wanted to get back to normal.
He started to do this by consulting with a special doctor of anti aging, and followed advice of the doctor. Before he started this, he did medical check about his body like liver functionality, and every result showed good value, which indicated that he was absolutely healthy. The doctor`s anti aging training was to do proper exercise and take supplements and inject some anti aging medication into body everyday. At first, everything seemed to go well, but 20 days later, when he took a medical check again, he figured out that his reproductive function did not work at all in terms of number of active sperms. His family has already three children, but he wanted to expect one more child, so he gave up to continue to do anti aging program. Throughout the training, he could lose his weight. I think there is no easy way to get back younger, and it comes true by doing long time effort. During the episode , a lady who looks younger said that her secret to be younger is "eat correctly, exercise correctly, and think happily". What she said really makes sense. - Muslims and America
- Straight Man in a Gay World
- Off the Grid
- Binge Drinking Mom
- Immigration
- Outsourcing
- Atheist vs Christian
- New Age
- Pro-life, Pro-choice
- Jail
- Working in a Coal Mine
- Living in a Wheelchair
- Animal Rights
- Same Sex Parenting
- Gun Nation
- Life on a Indian Reservation
I have not watched last 6 episodes yet, and I will do later, but every episodes which I have seen ever is thought-provoking story and educational for me. Throughout some episodes, I could see and understand cultural stories which are still controversial not only in America but also in the world. Most of them are stories which you never know until you try to know intentionally. Most impressive topic so far is "Outsourcing". This is about outsourcing by which many jobs are going to India from America, so it can happen to me actually. In the story, it shows us how motivated and eager Indian people are to get jobs and make money because if they can get jobs from all over the world, then they can be rich in India even though their salaries looks cheaper compared to average salary in developed countries. It looks cheaper for us, but it is surely big dear for them. The reason why jobs go to India is obviously that labor cost is lower and they can speak English, although accent is a little bit unique. Unique accent is not big deal, because they can communicate each other as long as they work together with Indian colleague. You might be wondering if they work with American people. Let me tell you the story behind which I learned from the episode. For example, many American companies outsource call center to Indian companies which get call center jobs from many companies. What they do is to teach American accent to Indian operator in order to speak like American as similarly as possible. Moreover, what I know from a book is that they teach local accent depending on states. I do not know that they feel that it is fortunate or unfortunate for them, but they used to be under British, so they do not have issue for English learning. I feel a little bit jealous. I am thinking to ask it to my close Indian colleagues. At first, outsourced jobs were just routine jobs but gradually they are changing from routine jobs to high knowledge jobs. In addition to that, their salaries are increasing gradually. That`s natural phenomenon for capitalist society. Someday their growth will slow down and saturate to certain point, but it does not mean that outsourced jobs come back, and jobs will be just outsourced to other countries by pursuing lower cost.
One of my Indian colleagues in U.S said to me ironically "I come to U.S to look for advanced and exciting jobs but they are already started to be outsourced to my country.".
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