As I am reading these two essays it comes to my attention of how lucky we are as Americans. I mean these people work their balls off for us, and all we do is recieve the goods and use them. I think that we should challenge other countries to up there pay for the workers are supplying their major consumers of their product. Even the minimum wage workers here live so much better than other people in other countries. Though I am a firm believer that one must help their own first, I think that we should do something about other countries. Sooner or later their poverty might affect us.