So from time to time, a company is revealed to manufacture their goods in third world sweat shops, employ children, etc. People seem really upset about it,
but they continue to buy the products. Certain companies have been plagued with accusations of sweat shops/child labour for years.
Is it the cost? Often the product is more expensive than their competitors. Do the chillun make a better product? Or do people just not really care?
Today's question is brought to you by Nike...not that there's a link between the question and Nike...totally coincidental.
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Sweat Shops
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Posts: 58428 (10/01/08 10:38 AM) Registered loser |
Some things just need tiny little hands to make.
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Posts: 10409 (10/01/08 10:39 AM) Guttersnipe |
whooboy; i ain't making THAT joke
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Posts: 21639 (10/01/08 10:39 AM) MESS member |
and they still buy the Made in America stuff that's made in sweatshops in American Samoa or Guam
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Posts: 15148 (10/01/08 10:39 AM) faqmaster |
I like it when the sweatshop is closed down and the village is plunged into economic ruin.
I like that a lot. |
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Posts: 6148 (10/01/08 10:40 AM) Registered User |
Walfarts seem to be doing very well. Let's face it. You can't have prosperous people enjoying cheap products unless you have sweet shops
and slave labor, most of which are hidden thousands of miles from the consumer |
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Posts: 3355 (10/01/08 10:42 AM) Registered user |
mmmmmsweetshopsmmmmm
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Posts: 21640 (10/01/08 10:42 AM) MESS member |
PassionatePiscesMan wrote: I'm all for the sweet shops, I'll have a quarter pound of those chocolates |
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Posts: 883 (10/01/08 10:43 AM) |
PassionatePiscesMan wrote: true. whip those lazy little fucks and ONLY serve them gruel. 
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Posts: 15149 (10/01/08 10:43 AM) faqmaster |
slave labor, most of which are hidden thousands of miles from the consumer As they should be. Who wants to look at something like that every day? |
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Posts: 10410 (10/01/08 10:44 AM) Guttersnipe |
please, i don't even want to see my own kid every damned day
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Posts: 877 (10/01/08 10:48 AM) |
That "sweet shop" ruse is how they get all those innocent kids, you know. They tell them they'll be working in candyland, next thing they know
they're working in the perspiration factory.
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Posts: 320 (10/01/08 10:48 AM) Registered user |
I think they ought to give those children a raise once in awhile because they make some darn good stuff.
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Posts: 36586 (10/01/08 11:19 AM) |
blondemss wrote: I am sure they have a pill for that too |
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Posts: 10412 (10/01/08 11:20 AM) Guttersnipe |
too late for the morning after pill by about...18 years.
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Posts: 3356 (10/01/08 11:34 AM) Registered user |
18 year after pill:
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Posts: 13656 (10/01/08 11:36 AM) |
You'd better provide a diagram, or she'll try to swallow that.
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Posts: 3604 (10/01/08 11:37 AM) Registered User |
merkyl wrote: 
2) Andrew Ure, The Philosophy of Manufactures (1835). I have visited many factories, both in Manchester and the surrounding districts, during a period of several months and I never saw a single instance of corporal punishment inflicted on a child. The children seemed to be always cheerful and alert, taking pleasure in using their muscles. The work of these lively elves seemed to resemble a sport. Conscious of their skill, they were delighted to show it off to any stranger. At the end of the day's work they showed no sign of being exhausted.
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jessica has spoken |
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Posts: 6519 (10/01/08 11:37 AM) Registered User |
I used to have convictions.
Now, I don't have time for that shit. But I did buy 12 articles of baby clothing from Old Navy this weekend for 30 dollars! Including FIVE, yes 5, zip up hoodie jacket things. |
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Posts: 591 (10/01/08 11:38 AM) |
Link Please wrote: Isn't that what they did to Pinocchio? |
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hwamf |
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Posts: 3357 (10/01/08 11:43 AM) Registered user |
Before the buggery.
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