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I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss [video]

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Re: I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss [video]

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That's a more reasonable opinion. I believe that the solution is to make sure people in situations like these have real, viable options. For example, places of employment with decent working conditions. Incidentally, many of the complaints against Chinese/Bangladesh/etc. factories could also be leveled against US factories per my experience. Other than the child labor bit, I've seen just about everything here, too, t…

> Incidentally, many of the complaints against Chinese/Bangladesh/etc. factories could also be leveled against US factories per my experience. Other than the child labor bit, I've seen just about everything here, too, though I expect some of the problems are simply more widespread and occur more frequently. When a US factory burns down and kills all the employees inside because they'd been locked in during their 15 h…

It wasn't a factory, but there was a lawsuit over the Wal-Mart where the employees were locked inside while stocking habitually, only for someone to have a medical emergency.

You're right that there are better protections in the USA. But day-to-day conditions are not so great--there's nothing particularly abnormal about 15-hour shifts, or people who would lose their jobs for refusing them.

Re: I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss [video]

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Your arguments are quite flawed as they could be applied in favour of feudalism or plain cattle slavery. Also, "Communist" China has raised quite a lot of people out of povert as well. Should we therefore attribute this to state-communism (or state-capitalism)? Of course not. For me, this is fundamentally an ethical question. Is this wrong and should one work to change it? I think that when a wage labourer barely, if…

> Your arguments are quite flawed as they could be applied in favour of feudalism or plain cattle slavery. Not at all. I could make some solid suggestions for proven ways of improving on feudalism or slavery. But I don't know of any likely ideas to help Bangladesh beyond what they're already doing. More to the point, RodericDay apparently didn't have any either. If I say Apple knows a few things about global supply c…

My point is that raising people out of poverty should not be used as a measurement of a systems viability and success. As such, the unfair state-capitalism of China should not be praised as a viable system of the future just because it succeeded to raise so many people out of poverty.

Re: I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss [video]

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> Your arguments are quite flawed as they could be applied in favour of feudalism or plain cattle slavery. Not at all. I could make some solid suggestions for proven ways of improving on feudalism or slavery. But I don't know of any likely ideas to help Bangladesh beyond what they're already doing. More to the point, RodericDay apparently didn't have any either. If I say Apple knows a few things about global supply c…

My point is that raising people out of poverty should not be used as a measurement of a systems viability and success. As such, the unfair state-capitalism of China should not be praised as a viable system of the future just because it succeeded to raise so many people out of poverty.

> My point is that raising people out of poverty should not be used as a measurement of a systems [...] success.

I have no words.

Re: I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss [video]

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My point is that raising people out of poverty should not be used as a measurement of a systems viability and success. As such, the unfair state-capitalism of China should not be praised as a viable system of the future just because it succeeded to raise so many people out of poverty.

> My point is that raising people out of poverty should not be used as a measurement of a systems [...] success. I have no words.

Why? Do you believe that?

Re: I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss [video]

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It's not that simple. If you pay more than the next factory over for the same work, you become uncompetitive with that factory, and you start losing contracts. If that becomes bad enough, that will drive you under. This is why minimum wages are important - to make it so your neighbor also has to pay the better rate as well. This breaks down somewhat when your factory is competing with another factory in another count…

Moreover, if they did implement a minimum wage, business would just move to the next country that doesn't

Unless all countries implemented a minimum wage.

Re: I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss [video]

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...and that would be "scarce", not "scares"; my fingers seem to type phonetically when I'm not paying enough attention.

you can click edit and fix your post.

Not after some timeout (24 hours?). I noticed it when I was glancing over my comments the next day looking for replies.
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