Nike vs. Apple
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- brandelec0
i was born and raised in a third world country, and all ic an say about people protesting 'child labor' is that corporations like nike are turning people into employees that can support their families instead of prostituting or selling drugs
they live be theyir standard, not yours
dont be so naive you morons
- mrdobolina0
good point, brandelec.
- lowimpakt0
So brandelec, you don't think that if these companies are 'integrating' these countries into the international economythey don't have a responsibility to pay internationally recognised wages??? Pay the parents proper wages and send the kids to school. Unless of course it suits you to have an uneducated populous that you can continually keep in the grip of poor labour rights and poor wages..........
don't call me a moron.
- fingercore0
So you speak on behalf of all third-world people? Funny, I've read a lot of articles and books from people who have studied the conditions and results of slave labor. Not just from American viewpoints, but from the people who have worked in such conditions. None of them seem to be as thrilled as you about Nike paying them next to nothing. Nobody said their standards are the same as mine, but the point is that CEOs are making an arm and a leg by taking advantage of people far removed from eyes first-world consumers.
Global corporations have made it so that these countries now rely on them to make any sort of living--albeit a pitiful one. Natural resources and farmland have been destroyed in order to build factories. They really have no options left.
- mrdobolina0
America used to have unfair labor practices and then, in time, these things changed due to the work of the American people organizing themselves. The tides will change in these other countries.
- Lop0
"you don't think that if these companies are 'integrating' these countries into the international economy they don't have a responsibility to pay internationally recognized wages??"
The responsibility is within the country itself that these people live in. Not Nike. Nike is not responsible for a poor economy of another country.
Additionally if Nike paid wages that were comparable to you and I you would complain about the sneakers costing you 900.00 choose to not buy them and as a result sports throughout the world would suffer due to lack of sponsorship funds. You are seeking the best of both worlds and you won't find it like this.
- lowimpakt0
not if the corporations continue repress union and worker rights............
- fingercore0
Yeah, this is true, but thanks to NAFTA and WTO, many of these companies that would have had to otherwise recognize unions and wage laws are just taking their business abroad where such laws don't exist.
- fingercore0
Why would shoes have to come up in price? God forbid the CEOs and upper-management took any sort of salary-cut.
- brandelec0
talk is cheap, you guys talk like its that easy for them like they have a choice
- brandelec0
talk is cheap, you guys talk like its that easy for them like they have a choice
- brandelec0
who are you guys to say that they're suffering when they do it to send their kids to school, buy their supplies, take care of their sick and feed their uneducated elders
- lowimpakt0
"sneakers costing you 900.00"
bullshit. The economics here are basic so we don't need to explain why that is nonsense. I don't wear nike mainly because I think they look like shit and frankly the idea that people can be held in poverty so you can by cheap trainers is sick.
- brandelec0
you guys are bigots
- mrdobolina0
brandelec, I see where you are coming from. What would these people do if they didn't work for Nike etc?
I'm really pretty ignorant on it.
- lowimpakt0
what are you talking about. whao are bigots.
- brandelec0
you guys are right, here's a list of other job opportunities:
pan handler (var.)
parking assistant (5c a car)
street fruit seller (2c per fruit)
drug dealer (var.)
prostitute (1-10dol per client)
windshield wiper (var.)
- brandelec0
oh yeah, they can also dance for you right outside your car while you're on a stop light, a whole song for spare change