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Entry: Tagging Rights
posted by HermesWearsConverse
Nov 30, 2007 4:49AM
While this may seem a bit of a cold-hearted economic defense of big business, it is not intended to be such. There are two ways to look at buying cheap clothes. The first is that buying cheap clothes is promoting sweat-shop labor and forcing people in third world countries to work in terrible conditions. The other is to understand that if forced to pay similar wages in other countries, companies would not move their operations there and thus employment would not be created for people in those regions. Using western standards to look at employment situation can be almost as damaging as not thinking about the problem at all...That being said, companies who make things for soooo cheap that they don't even pay a liveable wage is out of the question in my shopping habits.