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And just think, India's population is growing faster than China's.

"More New Ideas On The Brush tip, Less Old Baggage On The Soul"

wonder if he stole that....

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i wana start buying at trift stores. this is shity. the british business man with the turban was a real Jack haggler. this milking of people for anything they got is satanic. 6 cents an hour come on....... and dont give me crap about there cost of living is low.

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Talk about pulling at some heart-strings. I once worked a job where I wasn't compensated correctly for overtime, the difference was only about $3.5 CDN over 20 days and I still made $2000 that month, I was just devastated that a business owner would have the audacity to do such a thing. I wouldn't have lasted one day in that factory. Humans are not designed to exclusively work. 20 hours of working is not good for a person. China is obviously different, how can he compete paying his staff the legal required amount? He can't.

The crux of the issue: Who can we blame and what can be done?

We need to take a serious look at ourselves as consumers. I once took a serious look at buying some clothing from a local clothing store where everything was made in house, I abandoned the idea and justified my consumer choice by price. What I need to do as a consumer is keep myself informed about what I am buying and who I am buying it from.

I think that the factories customers (Namely the french guy) need to put themselves in the factories employees shoes. They don't work as long or as hard as the factory labour does, and I'm willing to bet they make more money (in whatever currency).

The factory owner in the beginning of the documentary struck me as a honest hard-working man who would like to abide by the law but can't realistically compete. My view changed as the documentary progressed. He drives a Mercedes for petes sake. It might not be the best comparison, but from what I can tell, a 5 series BMW in China costs about 598000 yuan. So if we are to conservatively that the owner had 500000 disposable yuan to buy his car, he either worked for ~208 years (by my math) or takes a considerably larger paycheck than the rest of his employees. My boss makes more than me, but not that much more.

Last paragraph, I promise. That french guy is an idiot. The restaurant is representative of the factory? You sure about that? As a reasonable human being with a basic moral standing, I would rather eat in a freaking cardboard box if it means the employees being payed more. I heard an analogy not too long ago of a teacher putting his face in the mud so that his student could rise above him. To me it seems the corporate officials in this story are stacking cheap labour in order to raise themselves up, corporately, morally, and socially dispicible in my opinion.

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