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TuMNepHaceS (January 4th, 2009 @ 6:19 pm)

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jaymoore299 (December 26th, 2008 @ 8:01 pm)

First of all this is dishonest journalism. It is impossible to work 20 hours in one day on a consistent basis. This does not happen anywhere in the world. Secondly, the people are allowing themselves to be "exploited", nobody is putting a gun to their head and telling them they have to work. And thirdly, it is up to the workers to unionize and demand better pay or hours, not the employers to just give it to them. Americans had to fight to get these for themselves, and so should they.

demexii1 (December 24th, 2008 @ 7:02 am)

Where are their government? Isn't that their problem, not ours?

demexii1 (December 24th, 2008 @ 7:00 am)

Why do they do that? BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY PAYS. Think about it. They may have tough jobs but they are jobs where as before they were starving. Plus, if it was so bad petition the government to step in and help or for the workers to unionize. Don't blame the companies for doing what is in their interest when the government and people aren't doing their jobs and helping those people out either.

CrimsonToast (December 23rd, 2008 @ 11:17 am)

your right they cant, but how do we solve this? If we get the government involved it gives them more power over the markets. So people should either recognise these atrocious working conditions and choose not to work their, and when the company has little employees they would be forced to increase their working premisise to make more people willing to work there. Unfortuantly you need a way to make a living so we should start a national boycaut on whatever place has sweatshops of this sort.

BSODPanic (December 23rd, 2008 @ 5:54 am)

Crimson, watch the video, they can't fucking unionize! They get abused, fired, or both. When your source of living depends on that little bit of money, not very many people are going to be able to take that risk. That's why the US has labor laws so something like this doesn't happen.

CrimsonToast (December 22nd, 2008 @ 5:35 pm)

If these people are so fucking pissed about it... ummm... Howbout unionize you fuckin tards. The responsibility should be left with the people not the government.

ElHasZardo (December 20th, 2008 @ 7:26 pm)

i feel for the men in that clip, since the narrator only seems to feel for the women.

thinkingisawesome (December 15th, 2008 @ 5:41 pm)

Blah, mistakenly made the comment too early. Subsidization of Western farms that create unfair competition for third world countries they trade with IS a problem. And those subsidies should end. But that's not market economics or globalization. Subsidies to local businesses are nationalization and socialism. The answer is not to go against globalization, which just increases the problem, but to end those subsidies. The west is wrong on that one.

thinkingisawesome (December 15th, 2008 @ 5:38 pm)

Although I agree, Itgs, Lem brings up a valid concern: Western subsidies. Although market economies are universally superior, unfortunately the same cannot be said for the nations they originate from.

itgsweb (December 15th, 2008 @ 2:13 pm)

Okay so anyone that has taken a standard economics class knows that a voluntary trade is beneficial to both parties. These women choose to work for these corporations. Despite the filthy conditions and low wages, these women would be pissed if they where fired due to some idealist telling the factory to improve conditions, which would cost the factory money. Conditions should improve, but lets remind ourselves that the environment outside these companies in these nations are also bad.

lemdixon01 (December 14th, 2008 @ 9:27 pm)

Noam Chomskys describles globalisation as opening up boarders so that subsidised food from US and EU can flood the market so that farmers in developing countries cant compete and are forced to go to the cities and work in sweat shops. This is at lower wage than would be if it wasn't for the shear number of workers so they can lower wages.