Final Exam questions discussion

1. Should government be responsible for keeping consumers safe?

In my opinion, government should be responsible for keeping consumers safe. It's the government's duty to keep the consumers safe in any kind of market. Government should protect consumers when there are things that infringed the rights of consumers. But I think consumes also have to be responsible to the government.



4. Is the individual consumer responsible? Should we rely on the consumer's common sense? What is common sense?

Individual consumer should be responsible, yet a lot of consumers aren't responsible. My father owns a food company, I know that some of the consumers are very rude and not responsible at all. They think that it's the company's duty to change anything that consumers don't like. They are not only not responsible to themselves but also to the company and to the market. However, being a consumer myself, it is hard to think of the company's benefit. We all believe in our own common sense. What I think this common sense is that consumers think that they are right in judging products. For example, when we see a nice and beautiful packaging in a supermarket, we usually believe that this package of product must be expensive and good. And the problem is that the more expensive, the more we believe that the product is good! This is wrong. The value and quality of a product doesn't lie on the beautiful package of the product. We should all learn more on how to choose products and learn what's the real market is like. So that we choose what is right. I think after this final exam we will all learn more about these things.

Good luck to you next week!!!