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The only way we can afford to buy the stuff we have is because some chinese kid makes it and gets paid a bowl of rice a day. If those kids got paid the same wage as us we couldn't afford to buy clothes, electronics, cars, toy's, food ect. so do we want chinese kids as slaves or is the system broken?
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| who cares, I've got a 42" tv | 14 |
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The system is broken, and it isn't just the economics. I also hear that it's just 81 billionaires or so who have enough wealth to cause everyone to live above poverty. But perhaps I've got too many tinfoil-hat wearing wing nuts on my social media page. I don't know how these people don't want to save the world unless it is just such a different kind of life that these things just don't occur in their minds. that can't be so. we're all human.
Well yeah the system is broke. Though you need a high wage in other countries because cost of living is so high. Those kids actually get paid for what they do.
It just happens they are not in great conditions and happen to be very young. It is probobly a lot cheaper to buy things in china because they are poor.
The cost of living depends on how well off you are. If you live in hood you will find a lot of 99cents stores. The reason for this is everyone is poor and that's the most they can afford. So higher living, equals higher costs, equals higher wages.
The system is broken. Reform is needed. They are thankfully quite a few organizations that try to fight for better wages and working conditions but in the end it all comes down to money. If there was a worldwide law that made it illegal to have people working under such horrific conditions then that would at least force the people on top to make changes.
I'm not really sure if there's much we can do from the consumer standpoint. Even if we managed to organize a boycott of these types of products, then what? the workers that made these lose their jobs and starve?
I think we may be forced to wait until China and the other sweatshop types of countries become fully industrialized. Sweatshop workers may be able to assemble 15 iPods a day, but when a robot is developed that can assemble 200 with only a fraction of the operating costs, I think those workers will be able to come into a higher standard of living. This exact type of thing happened/is happening in the US.
The robot would cost millions to build and need expensive robotics engineers to maintain, why not just abduct some chinese kids and chain em to a production line? By the way 10,000 kids get abducted in China every year, were do you think they go?
Sure the capital up front is expensive, but the overall cost of operating a factory exclusively run by machines is actually considerably cheaper than even running the factory on slave labor. The price of food is still more expensive than the price of the electricity and minor maintenance done by a technician. The quality of products coming from a factory using machines rather than manual labor is also considerably higher.
The system is broken. But I really can't come up with a better one. I suck at economy.
Do you really give a fuck about someone who you are never going to meet on the other side of the planet?
But by buying the products they make we fund the corrupt system keeping them down. Shouldn't we feel responsible.
No not really. These people may be oppressed but they have done it to themselves without help from outside countries. China is such a shithole because there are just too many people, if they didn't work for such cheap wages then other countries would not bother outsourcing work to them and as such these people would not get any wage at all, if you think about it we are actually helping them by buying these products.