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Out of context: Reply #366

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    Fashion Nova’s Secret???????
    Underpaid Workers in Los Angeles Factories

    The online retailer makes fast fashion for the Instagram elite. The way many of its garments are made is much less glamorous.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/…

    #MAGA Christmas to all...and to all a good night

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    • it's about context, underpaid by USA terms, when you make $1 a day in Central America, $8 an hour is what dreams are made of. But stories sell!robotron3k
    • US Labor Dept found Fashion Nova clothing was made in factories that owed hundreds of workers (many of them undocumented) a total of $3.8MM in backpay and...whatthefunk
    • ...used sweatshops that paid sewers as little as $2.77 an hour.
      #IsThisMAGA?
      #ContextSpin      whatthefunk
    • All while utopian rageson his capitalist scum iPhone...how ironic.Hayoth
    • well are they forced to work or is it more directed at economic forces that create these opportunities for peopel to work as such low wages others wont touchdeathboy
    • no minimum wage or ducemntation scare these peopel could easily compete with minimum wagers to lower costs through demand on labordeathboy
    • Word diarrheamonospaced
    • Or just scared to try to comprehend mon?deathboy
    • Minimium wage sets boundaries. It opens up a shadow economy. To further that shadow economy state documentation rules. Depending on labor force and pricesdeathboy
    • companies work out margins and hire. So you have to assume policies policing lead to black market practices which carries a risk and makes a select work for.deathboy
    • trust me in CA big finaciers know this and benefit. tied into gov regulation.The idea is to create a self controlled economy through protectionist practicesdeathboy
    • and an edge on competition. none of which is capitalism. more in line with crony capitalism or socialism. central planning by the few for the greater gooddeathboy
    • Do you ever think the CA elected officals discuss cracking down on illegal immigration and its effects on the economy/donors before making decisions?deathboy
    • there are a shit ton lobbyists with own aims from large corp pushing for more lack immigration that they benefit from.deathboy
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