Baraka

One might conclude that the workers are unhappy since it is common for factory workers to be paid a petty amount for a ridiculous amount of work. It shows how the effects of mass production and commercialization are contrasted in serene nature scenes and other scenes from today's busiest industrial cities.

Defined as applying methods of business to exploit or produce something to make a profit, commercialization has the same effects as and is also a result of mass production.

Another example as a result of mass production

takes place in the scene where acres and acres of trees are being cut down to make paper. Young girls who had no other way of making a living, were sold on the street and only worth as much as they make according to their society. It is in these urban industrial cities all around the world where commercialization effects not only the status of the economy, but the well being of the workers. Happiness is not achieved through material things, the end products of people and animals being reduced to objectification.

Over a prolonged period of time, workers slowly kill themselves physically and emotionally, perhaps without getting compensated for it while people who tend to make a lot of money don't work as hard but get paid more. Another moving scene in Baraka was of a group of young female prostitutes on the streets of China. Considering the amount of recycling we do today, it is hard for one to consider "the need" to tear down as many new trees as we do. The mass murder of beautiful, innocent trees that produce oxygen and homes for animals are examples of how mass production ravages nature to provide material things for modern cultures.