Slave Labour and us!
Everyone likes a good deal but at what cost ?
Every now and then there is a “news item” showing images of children working in some factory in, generally, a third world country. They are at times hired by the contractors of some of our favourite “high street names “( unknowingly of course ) The “news team” are horrified. Our “high street names” are horrified ( and will address any such issues with immediate effect ) Then there’s us….the public. Are we horrified ? I wonder. I would suggest that we aren’t horrified. We still want our good deals we also want to be paid as highly as possible for any work that we do, therefore retailers/purchasers will look anywhere they can for cheaper labour , in order to offer us what we crave. Surely we aren’t naïve enough to think that we can have what we want without the involvement of slave labour ? |
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I am shocked that the retailer feigns surprise still.
However the "slave labour" aspect isn't just used by cheaper companies. most clothing/footwear companies use far eastern sweatshops. (I remember the furore over the guy who ordered his Nike trainers (when they would put your name or whatever on them) he wanted the name of the bloke who worked 16 hours a day in Vietnam for $1 a day's name on them. they refused. So most clothing retailers use far eastern sweatshops so they can have a ludicrously high profit margin. If they wanted to stop it they could, by paying a higher salary and employ the staff direct. They won't and they use a third party so they can pretend they don't know about it. B*ll*cks |
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there are two problems here... one is that the children are working for ****** all and the other is that the children have to work in the first place to feed their families...............yes the companies are taking advantage of the poverty but who's fault is the poverty and what would happen to their families if the children didnt have jobs at all??
just to make it perfectly clear i do not agree with children working! |
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Even if the largest part of the profit was passed on to us, we would still clamour for a better deal and they would still attempt to deliver by whatever means. I think we know this too. Hence my suggestion that maybe we are not all that bothered about sweatshops ( Just my own thoughts ) |
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Really don't think we can do anything about the sweat shops until the leaders of the countries involved sort it out. As long as they let kids work there is little we can do about it!!
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if a dress is £50, and then it is £25 in the sales,,who is making a fast buck in the first place,,not the customer,,,:rolleyes:
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The main point is that children get used. We all know it, it just seems we are not all that bothered. I'ts complaicency but what drives that complaicency, is it our own greed? |
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