Craving a burger? Fortunately for all of us people in modern countries, we have easy access to the things we crave and desire “now.” If a person wants a burger, realistically speaking, they can drive to the nearest fast-food restaurant and curb their craving in less than fifteen minutes time. This idea is absolutely insane to me. Unfortunately its something thats incredibly eye-opening in that our generation of millennials is not accustomed to doing any work for the goods and products we want. With fast-food restaurants on every other corner of almost every city nation-wide, obesity rates have skyrocketed and people’s gratitude for every-day things has decreased significantly.

This generation is not accustomed to waiting, let alone working for any single thing. For Pete’s sake, we can now order goods online we can have it delivered in less than twenty four hours! Thats absolutely insane. Society has become so impatient and so desperate for the newest things on the market. God forbid we have an iPhone 8 and not the iPhone 10 that came out last week. It might as well be the end of the world to most people. We take so much for granted.  Most of us literally do nothing to work for the products and goods we want. It’s plain and simple; everyone gets everything effortlessly.

When digging deeper into this thought, we are forced to acknowledge that most people in our country, the United States specifically, are spoiled. Odds are, unless you are the person raising the cow or growing the lettuce, you don’t have to do any of the work necessary to reap the benefits of those other people’s labor. If you want a burger, you can get that burger with the drop of a hat. For further explanation, to make a plain burger you need things such as the following; a bread bun, lettuce, tomato, a beef patty..etc. When we see the burger being made in the drive-through window, we don’t acknowledge the tedious work that countless people put into making that finished burger that we now have in your hands. Each of the ingredients of that burger are at the disposal of your fingertips, yet they each took a whole network of people, nation-wide and sometimes even world-wide, to come together and make that product you are now consuming.

Every item/ingredient that makes up the goods you consume are all intertwined. Many people had to plow fields to get food for a cow; others had to raise the cow, and others maintain it. Someone had to slaughter that same cow and deliver it to a factory where the meat would be processed. That factory, employing a ton of workers, had to process that burger patty and an entire crew had to deliver it to the fast food chain’s factory. There, yet another crew packaged the patties and sent them to a trucking company where the order was shipped out to individual fast food chains. Next, there was a crew that cooked the beef patty and put it together with the other ingredients to make the finished product we have such quick and easy access to. Essentially, hundred of people worked and concentrated their individual and collective efforts in order to get that beef patty into that single burger; this isn’t even including all of the other ingredients in that burger.

To have such goods at your disposal, without doing any more work than simply driving to the fast food restaurant or store and swiping your debit card, is absolutely appalling. We have extremely easy access to literally any material item we want. The majority of us do not have to do any work in order to reap the benefits we get through those goods we have the opportunity to purchase. In this regards, society truly has come a long way. We do not take into account any work that went behind the processing of those items we buy. Other international cities and countries, such as parts of Africa for example, don’t have such simple access to the things they want. Some don’t even have access to their basic human needs of food, water and shelter. In this way, American society as a whole, is indeed spoiled. In reference to a cheese-burger or literally anything else, we take material items for granted… all the time.