Nikelab = Evil
Out of context: Reply #28
- Started
- Last post
- 35 Responses
- ********0
when all the focus was on nike's sweatshops nike really tried to fix things up, as their customers are very socially-conscious people. Truth is, they were already paying 18-cents an hour which was eight cents more-per-hour than the other sweatshops in bangladesh/wherever. If they boosted up the hourly rate to 80 cents an hour then all of the doctor/lawyer/gov't workers/everyone would want to work there.
The problem is when you try to bring the competition of capitalism to a country/area that's not competing.the OTHER problem is WAL-MART. Nike has done all it can within the bounds of capitalism to appease its socially-conscious customers. WAL-MART has no socially-conscious customers; it has customers that want stuff cheap. it's whole ad campaign is a smiley-face zorro who slashes prices from $1.99 to $1.86 or something. People who are trying to save a few pennies tend to not care about 'some poor foreigner'.
Therefore, WAL-Mart has been slow to allow 3rd-party inspection of it's factories, implying that bad stuff is going on.
WAL-MART is EVIL.
but it's convenient, i go there all the time.
*please let no more of my posts be longer than this one.