Eddy
Period 6/Period 1
Mr. Patrick/Mr. Blake

Expository Essay
A country without freedom and has negative effects with the citizen is a place where a lot of unhappy things happen. In a command economy, negative situation happen because the government takes away the citizen freedom and life. A command economy is the second most used economy in countries that are wealthy and powerful, they can provide you other things like allow you to trade and make money by the government way but this economy has negative effect on the citizen by taking their freedom to live.
A command economy is harsh and makes it very difficult for the people to live. This economy focuses on the government controlling its citizen like they’re slave. China is a good example to talk about command economy. Every action or decision is led by the government. For example, China has a huge population so the government only allowed each family to have one child but this lead to the situation where family kills their own child, because sometimes it’s a girl and they want a boy to carry on their family name. You could see that command economies affect the citizen. This could tell us that command economy is a big problem to China right now. Families have to kill their child even if they don’t want.
Some stories can be related to this economy, for example the story “The Wise Old Woman”. It’s about a young lord who makes old people go to the mountain and left them to die because he thinks they are useless. As a result command economies can make you disappear with words from the government. The government’s decision can negatively affect you for example in the Tianmen Square of China, a group of student and other peoples say that the peoples can decide which government they want. However the government doesn’t allow this so they send an army to arrest these groups and they have the order to kill if anyone wants to resist. The result is thousands of people die either by gun or being crushed by tanks.
The command economies affect on China is even more than we imagine. Products like foods, clothes, furniture, goods and services…etc are create from factories but in a command economies the factories have to create whatever the government allow them to create. For example, if the government tells a factory to create one television and you want to create more to make a fortune out of it but you still have to create only one because you don’t want to get punish by the government. Another example is a factory is creating food for the people but the government tells you to stop and create clothes. The peoples have many times started revolutions to force the government to change economies many times. However, the government had made an example for the citizen by killing anyone who went against their economy like the Tianmen Square. But each times the people start a revolution so sooner or later more revolution will occur because they have learned from examples of other peoples stand up against the government ways of controlling China.
As a result, command economies can affect it citizen very badly like the example about child birth, the Tianmen Square and order people to die. Country that have this economy will be suffering a lot from there because of the government cruel way of controlling it country . However, countries that have a command economy are trying to move toward a market economy.