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]
#2If they work so hard, how do they not burn out?
Re: I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss [video]
#3poverty is bad, poverty breeds poverty ,
the kid must be in school, I get it
Kid is working reason would be either she needs to contribute for the family to make ends meet or schooling is not accessible
lets assume she is taken out of her work by this undercover sting operation, who would take care of her
just pointing out the problem is not enough, giving a sustainable solution and follow through to get it implemented is needed as well
Re: I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss [video]
#4Gee, sure makes America's lame first world problems look, well, lame.
Re: I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss [video]
#5poverty is bad, poverty breeds poverty , the kid must be in school, I get it Kid is working reason would be either she needs to contribute for the family to make ends meet or schooling is not accessible lets assume she is taken out of her work by this undercover sting operation, who would take care of her just pointing out the problem is not enough, giving a sustainable solution and follow through to get it implement…
And the exploitation of poverty sustains it.
Re: I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss [video]
#6Poverty is a such a large and difficult problem. Someone's knee jerk reaction may be to "ZOMG, shut down the factory!" But the factory is providing a _relatively_ better environment than what may other alternatives may provide, such as prostitution.
Re: I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss [video]
#7Will 3D printers be able to make nice clothes some day?
Re: I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss [video]
#8poverty is bad, poverty breeds poverty , the kid must be in school, I get it Kid is working reason would be either she needs to contribute for the family to make ends meet or schooling is not accessible lets assume she is taken out of her work by this undercover sting operation, who would take care of her just pointing out the problem is not enough, giving a sustainable solution and follow through to get it implement…
And the exploitation of poverty sustains it.
bottom of the pyramid has many problems which westerners dont get it, banning and sanction hurt poor people more than the governments of these poor nations
search for "poverty porn" so many people have made careers out of it
Re: I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss [video]
#9poverty is bad, poverty breeds poverty , the kid must be in school, I get it Kid is working reason would be either she needs to contribute for the family to make ends meet or schooling is not accessible lets assume she is taken out of her work by this undercover sting operation, who would take care of her just pointing out the problem is not enough, giving a sustainable solution and follow through to get it implement…
And the exploitation of poverty sustains it.
When companies outsource to countries like Bangladesh because of their cheap labor, it also provides jobs to millions of people there. They are not good jobs by our (western) standards, but they are better jobs than they could've had otherwise. Getting the kids out of the factories wouldn't do much unless their families had the means to sustain themselves.
Bringing such stories in the public eye is a good thing though because it might help bring about better oversight of these operations, and an improvement in working conditions. The companies that outsource to Bangladesh might now have an incentive to keep an eye on the working conditions (surely it's possible to have decent working conditions while still having a relatively cheap operation?)
Re: I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss [video]
#10Poverty is a such a large and difficult problem. Someone's knee jerk reaction may be to "ZOMG, shut down the factory!" But the factory is providing a _relatively_ better environment than what may other alternatives may provide, such as prostitution.
It's extra hard because the poor have less information available to them. When Clojure was released, I saw it as my opportunity to become a real-life Lisp ninja, on a platform in wide deployment. How did Meem see it? Oh, that's right, she didn't. Because she was sewing shirts instead of reading "Beating the Averages."