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Bonnyboy · 19-11-2007, 21:20

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 ?

19-11-2007, 21:20	#1
Bonnyboy Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,931 Liked: 0 times Rep Power: 2596	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 ? __________________ Semper in stercore versor, solum altitudo mutat