Fuck man I bet a lot of people watched this video and just forgot about it. From China to the U.S slavery, child labor, rape still happens and as you read this comment a child will be raped, a child will die, a child will cry because there parents are dead for cross fire in a war. We know what is right BUT will you do THE RIGHT THING. Remember this comment, search what you can do to stop these crimes. Or you can just keep living on a forget everything what I said. Just do nothing. become nothing
OK close all the Sweatshops( American word Asians don't know it meaning )
Your Asian you work at a sweatshop. The forgien do gooders have your place closed down to help you. You now have no job no income but your better now they helped you.
Now you can thank them for helping you. now you work as a prostitute to support your family
Asian poverty is not the fault of Western purchasing power. Asia has always been a hell, and it is the duty of the Asian people to fix their world. For one thing, they could reduce their birth rate, and thus birth fewer poor. Exploding the population as they do only ensures poverty. Asia is politically corrupt, and reflects the corruption of the populace itself. Asians need enlightenment - those that do enlighten usually prosper.
@rh001YT No.. but it is the fault of AMERICAN nike owners and CEO's and the people who make the decisions. The CEO of nike is worth 5.2 BILLION dollars! When they are paying workers in thirld world countries 3.20 a week. Less than 10 percent of Nike's 978 million dollar marketing budget could raise the salary of all their factory workers in Asia.
@musicluver2096 Nope. There is nothing keeping YOU from starting a business in Asia and paying the wage you prefer. NIKE could just as well have never happened, and then there would be less money flowing to Asia. Chinese cynical old men in government have been conspiring to keep wages low, the result being that a huge amount of Western, Asian and African wealth has flowed into China over the past 40 years. The global power game is more sophisticated than you know. Your moralizing is youthful.
In Bangladesh, there was a closure of several sweatshops which had been run by a German company, and as a result, thousands of Bangladeshi children who had been working in those sweatshops ended up working as prostitutes, turning to crime, or starving to death. Be careful which evil you choose to fight, its other peoples lives that you are effecting.
In the early 1900's they had sweat shops in NYC and Chicago. Even Italy uses children to make handbags for Gucci (I think). I think, don't these people have a conscience. They sit there with a big belly, all the food, bed, and these children, children mind you are slaving away. At least better their wages, lessen the hours, breaks and some in house education. That is not too much to ask and they will still have billions left over.
@KripDrip No I would not. However, these companies could provide better working conditions. These are kid. Provide them with breaks, lunches wouldn't be a bad idea. 8 hrs a day as opposed to 12-16. Americans wouldn't put up with that why shd they. These companies shd know better. They are making a fortunate on the backs of their sweat. Also, where does their schooling come into play?
@KripDrip I failed to mention that there are sweat shops in Italy of all places. They make hand bags and I think the name of the company is Gucci (not sure though). What about illegals in Canada and the US. They are the only ones who work for minimum wage.
fuck it... i like my polo clothes, nike shoes, and all that shit.. :) they learning skills early good for those kids they should get like 2 ten minute breaks and a hour lunch like we do though..
how dare you take sweat shop labor away from these people! you are the true bastard in this equation. ya these conditions seem horrible to us because of the context we put them in. you're basing this from what you experience as a worker in a nation with social services. in these countries they can 1) starve 2) work hard labor on a farm that will age them faster 3) illicit trades or services like guns, drugs, prostitution, and so on and so forth. you're the taking away 1 choice.
Sweatshops are for the better and will probably be around for some time. Sweatshops are forcing particular people to be better contributors to society. If a society cannot contribute (mathematics, science, lucrative trade, advanced weapons, etc.) they are forced to contribute via cheap labor.
Here's the problem with your logic: Would you want to live like this? Would you gladly trade your life/work for this one?
If the answer is 'no' there is no way in hell you have any right to jizz out your armchair free market meta theories. Define 'contribution', define 'society,' realize that 'sweatshops are for the better' is terrible English.
@derkaderkamfh3 Heres the problem with your logic. It is obvious that no one in North America would trade their lives for this one but you are comparing apples and oranges. America is a first world nation and the nations with sweatshops are developing nations. Its a FACT that sweatshops pay 2 to 3 times more than any local industry will offer. Wages are relative to the cost of living, and in these developing nations this is VERY LOW. In conclusion they ARE being paid a living wage.
@mike19371937 The CEO of nike is worth 5.2 BILLION dollars! When they are paying workers in thirld world countries 3.20 a week. Less than 10 percent of Nike's 978 million dollar marketing budget could raise the salary of all their factory workers in Asia.
Maybe you should read my comment again. My point was that although as much as sweatshops suck when you take into account that everything is also cheaper in Asia and Africa, it is expected that wages are also lower. This isn't entirely a bad thing. The only sensible way to increase wages is to have more sweatshops and businesses in these countries to create a larger demand for labour. The economy will grow and so will their productivity, this all means higher wages.
Do you know everything is price in US Dollars. How could everything is cheaper? It's all about oil. how could it be cheaper? Well let say Taiwan wants buy Oil, do you think the Arbs will accept New Taiwan dollars? it is fucking big scum! the Fed keep printing funny money, the Asain countries keep buying us bonds. We produce and you people in the usa cumsume. Don't you get it!
Er... I come from Asia and I don't think you got my point. Yes, it is true that a lot of things are cheaper there. I never said that Africa uses US dollars, I said that using US dollar as a standard for measurement isn't very good. If I could buy food and basic necessities for less than a buck, then my low wage wouldn't matter.
@mbcurry1981 The CEO of nike is worth 5.2 BILLION dollars! When they are paying workers in thirld world countries 3.20 a week. Less than 10 percent of Nike's 978 million dollar marketing budget could raise the salary of all their factory workers in Asia. its just.. not logical
@musicluver2096 Or you could forcibly higher wages by trying to appeal to some foreign dictator. Like that will ever happen. Even if it did, it will only cause sweatshops to hire less.
just be glad what their paying is much higher than almost all available alternatives for these workers in those countries. Look at the alternatives they got. they could be scavenging in a toxic garbage dump or prostituting themselves.
hi im from Poland here most of thing we buing its made in china i think a big percent of market huh.......i think sweat shops are very bad and ith shuld be closed all over bcse th using poor people and child labours to or the can egzist in one condtion if the paynig good money and respect ther stuff......i hope th law will make it happend one day
really?so why are you jelouse or somthing?? i used to live in London for like 6 yers and i ike it and can go back there antime i want and nobody can stop me fact it if we go there we wrking twices hard like English people for less pay and evrybdy its happy there too....so stop beaing racist and get a job mate or go to work in China for 5 dollrs a monts
am i fuck jealous of you or your people. your taking jobs from the true Brits, and pretty much every one hates you here, your not welcome although because we are in the peice of shit that is the EU we have to let you in to 'look' for a job.
how dare you call me racist, do you even know they true meaning of the word ?
and i can assure you i am NOT your friend.
i have a job actually im a beach life guard and im Studying Aerospace. fuck you !
really?wow when i start to work over there i was just simple labour bth after few yers i was working for a big compny and i hve high postion wth big money you know why bcse im educatead and i was hard wrking 7 days a week 12 hours a day...and evrybody likes tht .huh i dnt wann fight you bth UE it open now and people can travel evryhwere now i have many freds there and thre like us a lot,we working and paying taxes for your goverment,so it fair i think and i call y racist bcse you talking
bcse thers so many foreghn people in Uk from all over world and all of them have same right i ahve here nice life familly and home i hve life guard papers too im wrking in summer same both im free to go where ever i like too... and ithik Polish people are very respectd there bcse of our high education and hard wrking so fuck you too....... ps.i know meaning of racist man
how dare you take sweat shop labor away from these people! you are the true bastard in this equation. ya these conditions seem horrible to us because of the context we put them in. you're basing this from what you experience as a worker in a nation with social services. in these countries they can 1) starve 2) work hard labor on a farm that will age them faster 3) illicit trades or services like guns, drugs, prostitution, and so on and so forth. you're the taking away 1 choice.
your right both the working there bcse dont have any other choice to go too and ths facotries using this both still its not fair bcse th shuld pay them human wages not using kids and people to working for nothing so its still wrong mate how wuld we feel if we wrk 90 hour a week for 10 dllrs even r them its not enough t buy foods
humans in general though prefer more choices are you considering their alternatives? they can starve, work hard labor until theyre 40 or 50 before theyre unable to work, they can work in black market trades and services like prostitution, drugs, or weapons, as well some other some better and worse choices you're taking away a viable option for them one that may be tedious and un-fair but work that allows them to work and support themselves and families long after they could if they worked a farm
your right i agree this is an option for them t ern money in fair way and supoort famillies tht fact both many times condtion there are realy shocking th was movie about 11 yers old girl in bangladesh she was wrkinf for hanes ad ern like 0.5 cents a hour 50 cents a day i think its far not fair fr this kids......even over there its not enough t cover ther needs... second thing its easy for us talking about this when we have normall lifes i th we can talk dfrent if we will work ther ourself
its wrong on the corporations fault not the consumer it's annoying to hear people say BOYCOTT COMPANIES THAT USE SWEAT SHOP LABOR that doesn't really do much they tell you something that gives you a warm feeling inside and they keep doing what theyre doing if there's going to be change it has to happen on part of the workers
you want rights, unionize
us boycotting the companies will only end jobs that have been sustaining them
they are paying them human wages. Their wages are much higher than almost all the other jobs in those countries available for these people. The cost of living is a lot lower than in America so u cant compare their wages to wages here.
you mis-interpreted i never said they were good, fair, righteous, etc. i said they were 1 of only a limited amount of choices these people can make when it comes to a job. Generally, people like more choices than less and for some, this is really the only job they can do.
maybe idk all I'm saying is that they feel it's the only thing they can do. It happened in America about a 100 years ago. The people need to unionize. If we stop buying stuff made there they'll just lose their job.
Well we should stop buying stufff from there, so they will have to offer better working conditions to them if they want the world to consume, but off course it's not gonna happen anytime soon, because the thug Capitalist savage system has taken over
no they'll just move their operation and make it harder to find than the 1st the companies don't set up the sweat shops it's usually through another company contracted to set them up
2nd capitalism isn't the problem the US was still capitalist when they unionized and created better work standards as for consumer exploitation they can exploit me all they want capitalism isn't the problem in this world what we as a country need to watch out for is crony capitalism look it up
how do you know you can't save the whole world? what if every other country had been "saved" but your country, wouldn't you want to have your country saved as well?
List of sweatshops ,Perry Ellis, Pierre Cardin, Puma, Polo Ralph Lauren, Quicksilver, Rampage, Saab Automobile, Saturn, Suzuki, Sean John Clothing, Tommy Hilfiger, Volvo, Vans, Van Hensen, Victoria's Secret (part of Limited Brands), Limited Brands, Wrangler]merican Express , Converse, Gap, Emporio Armani, Motorola, Apple, Hallmark Cards, Dell, Microsoft]Hallmark
Some friend gives him Nike shoe, so he does not need to walk with feet or broken shoe. He sometimes cant pay for his rent so I let him to sleep in my house, and feed him. He has so much loans to pay, so he cant spend money at all. That is almost saying homeless who have Nike shoes throw it away, and walk by feet.
Also, almost every brand of cars, cloth, shoes, sports brands, machines use sweatshop.
tht right mate i totaly hate this too they just using this poor people to work bcse the dont have a biger choice to survive in my opinion they shuld be law like this if any company prduce stuf abroud th shuld pay t employers same rate like in ther countres huh
I am totally against sweatshops and it is gross. It should stop. But one of friend was hated by this adult, because he has several Nike cloths, because it used sweatshop. Yes it is very nice to think about labor who works very cheap, but does he have any idea how poor his finance is. He is basically telling him to throw away his entire Nike shoe and buy different one. Almost all of the cloth he got are from very cheap 2nd hand store, and from garbage.
Well the thing is you wont find many workers in developed countries working in sweatshops, so the companies go to these lifeless countries and make money there, as lifeless I mean in the right to live as a human being. Now the thing is ppl can go disrupting this all they want, but you can end up dead, sweatshops have deals with the mob, and traffikers, why do you think there are mix racialities in these shops.
The thing alot of people dont get is that China is a more capitalist country than us. They're workers have no rights, barely any wage, and then the conservatives turn around and call them socialist. The chinese government just lies to tell the people they are communist, because communism is the only true way people can be free next to anarchism.
Great song, too bad the dots just don't get connected here in the video to tell the tale of the alleged "sweatshop". In the end, just another crappy powerpoint with random pictures with not substance.
I agree with dacuverymuch. This is a mere collection of pictures illustrating misery;too many irrelevant ones; showing factories in the distance or people crying does not necessarily refer to sweatshop. I'm a fair trade activist and a bit disappointed by this diaporama. Mentions of the human rights articles violated in sweatshops would have been useful. still, it's always a good thing to bring the subject.
Some people in amercia would want to stop of sweat shops. But sometimes they dont realize that you cant stop the manfucatring goods for everyday amercians. If u did stop it Amercia production would be slow and many ppl will not have the items for need of living
I believe that sweatshops are pure wrong. But I also believe that if people start boycotting clothes or shoes made in these sweatshops, and business fail if like everyone decided to do that for example, than these people will have no where to work. It's true no matter how I hate that everything almost is made in these sweatshops, we have to accept that fact that trying not to buy the shoes alone won't make a difference. Other solutions have to be implemented, whatever those are, I don't know.
If one started boycotting things made in sweatshops. I don't think one would be buying any new clothes, shoes, trainers, or consumer electronics at all. It's pretty much all made in Asian sweatshops now, like the ones in the video.
I see the only real way to avoid cheap labour sweatshop made products, and that is to buy vintage, Where one sees things like Made in England, Made in USA, etc.
@mukatuna Boycotting isn't really going to help. No one is going to do that. People have different needs and since everything is made in Asia these days, their won't be selections for different people. I think their governments need to implement new laws, but that won't happen for a while either.
**sigh** So this is what comes of me giving these humans thought process... A handfull get oprotunistic & decide to take advantage of a larger groups misfortunes based on yet another failure of their misguided thoughs via degenerative govornment... They would have been better off as fish in the ocean or micro organisms
my grand mother worked in a rice field, grandpa was in the army and my dad, after the vietnam war my family moved to iowa state then minnesota, i was born in minnesota, sweat shops are horrible my uncle in lao's works in one, he's always sending my parents letters about the conditions the sweat shops are, it piss me off, just coz i'm an american i have to send money to his family coz the sweat shops pay him too low, they think were all rich in america, were not and thats what makes me mad
no, the reasoning of the people who have made hundreds of these videos which are ALL THE SAME - showing workers with sad background music? not ONCE have they put a solution other than "boycott nike". How the fuck will that help? Surely during the hours of video making they've asked that question at least once, right????
That's right!!! Poor people in 3rd world countries deserve to be more poor!!! They shouldn't be allowed to advance their economies and standards of living to modern standards, they need to go back to gathering nuts and berries like their ancestors of hundreds of generations!!!!
You're right, I can't believe WalMart and Ikea are making money off these poor people when they can be even more poor and live the same way they have for the past 8,000 years!!!!
I'm still convinced that we should forcibly shut down all the sweatshops in africa and asia, so that these people can go back to living in worse poverty, just as they have been doing for the past 20,000 years. Heaven forbid that industrialization and globilization could kill off 20,000 years of their precious culture!!!
It's fabulous!!! You pay less money for goods, the company has more money to pay it's employees, but OH NO!!!! The sweatshop employees are encountering horrific working conditions and low wages!!!! They would be much better off if they were still gathering nuts and berries like they've been doing for the past 10,000 years
I am from the United States. Most products labeled "Made in China" were made in sweatshops. Many of these products have been taken off store shelves for safety reasons. Most Chinese sweatshop workers are women ranging from ages 18 to 35, and many of them are teenage girls, or even 11 or 12 year olds. The People's Republic of China is known to be a big human rights violator.
I'm from the United Kingdom, and I'm using a laptop which is labelled 'Made in China'. It's quite difficult to find a laptop which isn't made in China.
There are some laptops that are made in Taiwan, and some made in Japan. My TV sets (which include a Samsung 40" HDTV set and Samsung 27" SDTV set) were made in Mexico. My Sony amplifier was made in Malaysia.
Aren't Mexico and Malaysia both cheap labour countries which have sweatshops? And both these countries do have child labour issues as well, although probably not with hi-tech type items like HDTVs.
BTW we have laptop in the house here which was actually made in Japan. A rather expensive Sony Vaio. Plus I've seen some older Dell laptops actually made in Ireland. Although I believe Dell have since closed the Irish factory and moved operations to China.
Human Rights. I think those children HAVE THE RIGHT to work and earn SOMETHING... rather than NOTHING!!!
what would you have them do? Turn to Begging?? Prostitution? Black Market??
As I said previously and many people have said as well. Given the situation they're in... working in those conditions and earning next to nothing is still good, as much as depressing as that may be to us.
UM... BECAUSE SLAVERY WAS FORCED.. .and CHILD LABOR IS NOT.
Children work because the situation at home demands it. If they had a choice... they wouldn't.
Me coming from India would know more than you. What you know bout the "evils" of child labor was given to you by National Geographic or PBS. I've seen it firsthand.
people don't get it. period. They sit in their houses, type nonsense on their IBM's and act as if they're truly concerned.
In Countries where Child labor is used. It IS THE BEST OPTION given the context. What would you have them do? BEG? STARVE? God Forbid... enter the black-market??
what seems harsh to us is shockingly positive to them. Their mindset is... "at least I'm earning something"
if you do that then you hurt the people you are trying to help because sweat shops provide jobs. without those people DIE! no matter what the pay. $2 for a day labor is good in other countries
Beggars can't be choosers. This is the only option these people have because they continually allow their leaders to sell out their resources and country.
Why should I worry about their shitty government, when I already have my own shitty gov to deal with?!?!
I agree with the comments made about "sweatshops" providing job opportunities. Sure their circumstances aren't ideal and none of us would want to be in their situation, but unfortunately in a country filled with poverty there aren't a lot of choices and these people need jobs to feed whole families. I recommend reading Where Am I Wearing by Kelsey Timmerman which is an easy read that delves into the world of people working in sweatshops.
1) These corporations make enough profit to not only improve these deplorable working conditions but to also pay these "employees" a living wage. They do neither.
2) These same corporations pay gov't officials and the police millions so that the status quo and their own profit margins continue. These people cannot improve their conditions b/c they can't compete against the financing of corrupt politicians and the cops who enforce the hegemony (see frame 00:28).
No I understand your point entirely probably more so now then back when i wrote my last comment. It's unfortunate that for many people they don't seem to have a choice and many will choose to work in sweatshops rather than working on farms where their families worked and lived. It is a very complex issue one i hope to learn more about. Cheers for the comment CGB3.
I usually don't post comments online but I felt like commenting about this issue. Would you rather see them being prostitutes or selling drugs? From what I've read about sweatshops so far, it seems like they don't have any job options that give them as much money as sweatshops. What's so opressive about the people sewing and working in a factory? There are factories in the US. It would be better if you made a video about people forced into prostitution or poor, hungry people.
Well, as horrible as they may look, at least sweatshops offer cheap high quality goods for Americans, while giving people around the world the chance for employment. Sweatshops give employers a wage twice that most companies in foreign nations might offer them. People are just too sensitive to even do their research. By not buying their cheap goods, you are basically destroying their chance for a good life, or to even earn a wage in life.
no, because the the companies of the sweatshops that employ them use the natural resources (trees, water, minerals, etc.) of their homelands, so that they can't provide subsistence living for themselves. The big companies BUY UP their land so they can't even farm on their own land. They were doing just fine before we got there.
@KripDrip Many of them look like toxic dumps. I am sure there is a lot of sexual and physical abuse going on as well. They go hand in hand bcz most of these kids are less than human to these Corporate Giants. Put one of their snotty kids in this environment and see how the feel. The God almighty $.
yes I am a libertarian and I believe that business should run the way they want as long as they are not harming it's employees or people, but the fact is these big corporations make these international communities repressed, force them into debt, punish them physically, and sustain horrible working conditions, at the price of a employee's well being. I'm not against the act of supplying work to people across 3rd world countries, I'm against how these companies run their business.
sweatshops are filled with human rights violations but forcing a company to change their ways will drive the sweatshop out of the country to look for cheaper labor making things worse.
and believe it or not no one is forcing them to work overtime either.
heres a surprise to the uneducated masses who listens to the media like sheep: no one is forcing them to work in sweatshops, in fact if it wasn't for sweatshops these children would be working on a farm making lower wages or picking up garbage.
here is a real life success country that industrialized because of sweatshops. south korea. 1950 they had a civil war and before that they had the Japanese rulers and the country was reduced to poverty. now they industrialized in less than 50 years
thanks to sweatshops, south Koreans had jobs and eventually had opportunity to get education and receive better jobs with higher pay. because of sweatshops south Korea then had building blocks to start businesses.
look at south Korea now, they created Samsung, LG, they are the producer of Hyundai cars and freight ships, they make and invent electronics so all of us can enjoy technology in out lives.
this video is just another fear tactic. trying to grasp at your emotions to get your support. i would not work in a sweatshop, but if i was living in a third world country i would work in a sweatshop than pick up garbage. here is reality, in some countries sweatshops pay twice the average wage of that country, better yet people who work in sweatshops are paid 3 times as much than slavishly working on a farm.
Can you please tell me where you found that statistic? Sweatshops DO NOT pay LIVING WAGES. These big corps are just finding cheap labor to make their billions. They have no other choice because politics have already taken all the other working options and led them work in these dehumanizing sweatshops.
I don't think you understand that these people are left with no choices because our govt. and their govt's are money and power hungry and even with those they are not willing to takie responsibility for their actions. The people in the sweatshops have no other choice, the only other choice is to starve and the only way their conditions will improve is changes in the factory practices.
It's because too many people have that same mentality that so many others are left starving and hungry. These sweatshops have gone on and on and on for decades and they haven't gotten any better. And by forcing higher factory standards, the firms will not just move from that country because moving doesn't mean they won't practice their dehumanizing ways, they'll have to contract new policies and have them on record or their business won't go.
"Many studies have shown that multinational firms pay more than domestic firms in Third World countries."
-thats because the political world drove out all the other jobs that pay decent. The majority of the people are forced to work for sweatshops. Does it look like they have a real choice? It's a lose lose situation.
places such as Kenya does not allow its own citizens to start their own business easily. but it is also difficult to start a sweatshop in those countries as well.
Communisn obviously doesn't work. It takes too much tolerance and unselfishness which many people do not have. Anyway, I wasn't arguing that point. -
Do you know what happened to Korea after that? The US gave billions of dollars to South Korea to start a democracy in fear that they will fall uner communist rule.
Economic Freedom <-- that is the key. We are blocking countries from having that "Economic Freedom". Here in the US, the "Land of Opportunity", if you have not noticed, we are losing our economic freedom extremely fast. We are in a recession for a reason.
all i know about what caused it is something about the housing market Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, and artificially low interest rates because of government intervention, and super spending by consumers and bush with money that they don't have with iraq war and so on. because of artificially low interest rates.
do you also know that we are losing the middle class because of all this? and because the middle class are our biggest consumers, the sweatshops are even worse off? Do you also know that artificially low interest rates come with a set price ceiling? Which we do not have meaning we do not have an atificially low interest rate.
"Maybe because Hong Kong was ruled by a European Nation for 30 years "
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uh no maybe its because Hong Kong is a very capitalist nation
the heritage foundation ranked countries by economic freedom
Hong Kong is number one and continues to be that way. and it is very strange that all the countries at rank the highest in economic freedom are also one of the richest countries in the world.
<__< That is not why they are wealthy. There are plenty of poor areas that can easily be considered the slums. AND the sweatshops did not bring them up to wealth. Sweatshops still go on in Hon Kong everyday. It's just less publicized.
"in no way shape or form was it because of the sweatshops. "
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i guess saying just sweatshops made hong kong rich is wrong.
because it wasn't just sweatshops
Britain colonized Hong Kong because they didn't want the Chinese to take it over and put forth communism. when china was taken over by communism there was a huge amount of immigrants that moved to hong kong.
anyways Cowperthwaite was sent to be a financial secretary there.
Are you trying to tell me that the sweatshops are a form of colonization? It's a form of undercover slavery. It's where girls as young as 10 get raped and abused, where mothers feel like they've sinned because they could not get out of work to tend to their sick children because if they do they get fired and have a VERY little chance of finding another job, meaning starvation for both mother and child.
"despite the myth, no one is forcing them to work overtime and no one is forcing them to work in sweatshops"
Do you know why I use the word FORCE? it's because they are FORCED to work in sweatshops because they have no ECONOMIC FREEDOM. and because of this, young girls who cannot find jobs turn to prostitution. Do you actually think girls in underdeveloped countries want to sell their bodies?
Fuck man I bet a lot of people watched this video and just forgot about it. From China to the U.S slavery, child labor, rape still happens and as you read this comment a child will be raped, a child will die, a child will cry because there parents are dead for cross fire in a war. We know what is right BUT will you do THE RIGHT THING. Remember this comment, search what you can do to stop these crimes. Or you can just keep living on a forget everything what I said. Just do nothing. become nothing
GummyBrains 9 months ago
I wept because of this video.
Please who sang the song that was playing in this video?
Thanks
ampleoppourtunity 1 year ago
OK close all the Sweatshops( American word Asians don't know it meaning )
Your Asian you work at a sweatshop. The forgien do gooders have your place closed down to help you. You now have no job no income but your better now they helped you.
Now you can thank them for helping you. now you work as a prostitute to support your family
MotelCambodia 1 year ago
America and the Western world looked like that shit and was! a hundred years or so ago
but know look at us we're first world nations now, those countries will be more prosperous then they are now in 50 to a hundred years from now
siggy16 1 year ago
@siggy16 i sure hope so
happyangelbaby125 1 year ago
Asian poverty is not the fault of Western purchasing power. Asia has always been a hell, and it is the duty of the Asian people to fix their world. For one thing, they could reduce their birth rate, and thus birth fewer poor. Exploding the population as they do only ensures poverty. Asia is politically corrupt, and reflects the corruption of the populace itself. Asians need enlightenment - those that do enlighten usually prosper.
rh001YT 1 year ago
@rh001YT No.. but it is the fault of AMERICAN nike owners and CEO's and the people who make the decisions. The CEO of nike is worth 5.2 BILLION dollars! When they are paying workers in thirld world countries 3.20 a week. Less than 10 percent of Nike's 978 million dollar marketing budget could raise the salary of all their factory workers in Asia.
musicluver2096 1 year ago
@musicluver2096 Nope. There is nothing keeping YOU from starting a business in Asia and paying the wage you prefer. NIKE could just as well have never happened, and then there would be less money flowing to Asia. Chinese cynical old men in government have been conspiring to keep wages low, the result being that a huge amount of Western, Asian and African wealth has flowed into China over the past 40 years. The global power game is more sophisticated than you know. Your moralizing is youthful.
rh001YT 1 year ago
In Bangladesh, there was a closure of several sweatshops which had been run by a German company, and as a result, thousands of Bangladeshi children who had been working in those sweatshops ended up working as prostitutes, turning to crime, or starving to death. Be careful which evil you choose to fight, its other peoples lives that you are effecting.
SparrowStella 1 year ago
In the early 1900's they had sweat shops in NYC and Chicago. Even Italy uses children to make handbags for Gucci (I think). I think, don't these people have a conscience. They sit there with a big belly, all the food, bed, and these children, children mind you are slaving away. At least better their wages, lessen the hours, breaks and some in house education. That is not too much to ask and they will still have billions left over.
empressoffrance 1 year ago
if u force them to pay higher wages, those jobs will disapear and then the kids will starve. do u want that?
KripDrip 1 month ago
@KripDrip No I would not. However, these companies could provide better working conditions. These are kid. Provide them with breaks, lunches wouldn't be a bad idea. 8 hrs a day as opposed to 12-16. Americans wouldn't put up with that why shd they. These companies shd know better. They are making a fortunate on the backs of their sweat. Also, where does their schooling come into play?
manchester2000ful 1 month ago
@KripDrip I failed to mention that there are sweat shops in Italy of all places. They make hand bags and I think the name of the company is Gucci (not sure though). What about illegals in Canada and the US. They are the only ones who work for minimum wage.
manchester2000ful 1 month ago
fuck it... i like my polo clothes, nike shoes, and all that shit.. :) they learning skills early good for those kids they should get like 2 ten minute breaks and a hour lunch like we do though..
bob31605 1 year ago
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how dare you take sweat shop labor away from these people! you are the true bastard in this equation. ya these conditions seem horrible to us because of the context we put them in. you're basing this from what you experience as a worker in a nation with social services. in these countries they can 1) starve 2) work hard labor on a farm that will age them faster 3) illicit trades or services like guns, drugs, prostitution, and so on and so forth. you're the taking away 1 choice.
tatomuck18 1 year ago
What are you talking about, sweathshops are there to fill the pockets of the rich people while abusing the poor, there is no way a swathshop is good.
hujintaomustresign3 1 year ago
Sweatshops are for the better and will probably be around for some time. Sweatshops are forcing particular people to be better contributors to society. If a society cannot contribute (mathematics, science, lucrative trade, advanced weapons, etc.) they are forced to contribute via cheap labor.
mbcurry1981 1 year ago
@mbcurry1981
Here's the problem with your logic: Would you want to live like this? Would you gladly trade your life/work for this one?
If the answer is 'no' there is no way in hell you have any right to jizz out your armchair free market meta theories. Define 'contribution', define 'society,' realize that 'sweatshops are for the better' is terrible English.
derkaderkamfh3 1 year ago
@derkaderkamfh3 Heres the problem with your logic. It is obvious that no one in North America would trade their lives for this one but you are comparing apples and oranges. America is a first world nation and the nations with sweatshops are developing nations. Its a FACT that sweatshops pay 2 to 3 times more than any local industry will offer. Wages are relative to the cost of living, and in these developing nations this is VERY LOW. In conclusion they ARE being paid a living wage.
mike19371937 1 year ago
@mike19371937 The CEO of nike is worth 5.2 BILLION dollars! When they are paying workers in thirld world countries 3.20 a week. Less than 10 percent of Nike's 978 million dollar marketing budget could raise the salary of all their factory workers in Asia.
musicluver2096 1 year ago
@musicluver2096
Maybe you should read my comment again. My point was that although as much as sweatshops suck when you take into account that everything is also cheaper in Asia and Africa, it is expected that wages are also lower. This isn't entirely a bad thing. The only sensible way to increase wages is to have more sweatshops and businesses in these countries to create a larger demand for labour. The economy will grow and so will their productivity, this all means higher wages.
mike19371937 1 year ago
@mike19371937
Do you know everything is price in US Dollars. How could everything is cheaper? It's all about oil. how could it be cheaper? Well let say Taiwan wants buy Oil, do you think the Arbs will accept New Taiwan dollars? it is fucking big scum! the Fed keep printing funny money, the Asain countries keep buying us bonds. We produce and you people in the usa cumsume. Don't you get it!
ycformosa 1 year ago
@ycformosa
Er... I come from Asia and I don't think you got my point. Yes, it is true that a lot of things are cheaper there. I never said that Africa uses US dollars, I said that using US dollar as a standard for measurement isn't very good. If I could buy food and basic necessities for less than a buck, then my low wage wouldn't matter.
mike19371937 1 year ago
If I were dictator you would be publicly beaten, burned alive and decapitated.
musicalidea 1 year ago
@mbcurry1981 The CEO of nike is worth 5.2 BILLION dollars! When they are paying workers in thirld world countries 3.20 a week. Less than 10 percent of Nike's 978 million dollar marketing budget could raise the salary of all their factory workers in Asia. its just.. not logical
musicluver2096 1 year ago
@musicluver2096 Or you could forcibly higher wages by trying to appeal to some foreign dictator. Like that will ever happen. Even if it did, it will only cause sweatshops to hire less.
mike19371937 1 year ago
just be glad what their paying is much higher than almost all available alternatives for these workers in those countries. Look at the alternatives they got. they could be scavenging in a toxic garbage dump or prostituting themselves.
KripDrip 1 month ago
hi im from Poland here most of thing we buing its made in china i think a big percent of market huh.......i think sweat shops are very bad and ith shuld be closed all over bcse th using poor people and child labours to or the can egzist in one condtion if the paynig good money and respect ther stuff......i hope th law will make it happend one day
martini9799 2 years ago
they should be moved to poland to stop you from moving to the UK
adamrep128 2 years ago
really?so why are you jelouse or somthing?? i used to live in London for like 6 yers and i ike it and can go back there antime i want and nobody can stop me fact it if we go there we wrking twices hard like English people for less pay and evrybdy its happy there too....so stop beaing racist and get a job mate or go to work in China for 5 dollrs a monts
martini9799 2 years ago
am i fuck jealous of you or your people. your taking jobs from the true Brits, and pretty much every one hates you here, your not welcome although because we are in the peice of shit that is the EU we have to let you in to 'look' for a job.
how dare you call me racist, do you even know they true meaning of the word ?
and i can assure you i am NOT your friend.
i have a job actually im a beach life guard and im Studying Aerospace. fuck you !
adamrep128 2 years ago
really?wow when i start to work over there i was just simple labour bth after few yers i was working for a big compny and i hve high postion wth big money you know why bcse im educatead and i was hard wrking 7 days a week 12 hours a day...and evrybody likes tht .huh i dnt wann fight you bth UE it open now and people can travel evryhwere now i have many freds there and thre like us a lot,we working and paying taxes for your goverment,so it fair i think and i call y racist bcse you talking
martini9799 2 years ago
bcse thers so many foreghn people in Uk from all over world and all of them have same right i ahve here nice life familly and home i hve life guard papers too im wrking in summer same both im free to go where ever i like too... and ithik Polish people are very respectd there bcse of our high education and hard wrking so fuck you too....... ps.i know meaning of racist man
martini9799 2 years ago
No, now you tell me the actual definition of Racism
adamrep128 2 years ago
@martini9799
how dare you take sweat shop labor away from these people! you are the true bastard in this equation. ya these conditions seem horrible to us because of the context we put them in. you're basing this from what you experience as a worker in a nation with social services. in these countries they can 1) starve 2) work hard labor on a farm that will age them faster 3) illicit trades or services like guns, drugs, prostitution, and so on and so forth. you're the taking away 1 choice.
TheDubVee 2 years ago
your right both the working there bcse dont have any other choice to go too and ths facotries using this both still its not fair bcse th shuld pay them human wages not using kids and people to working for nothing so its still wrong mate how wuld we feel if we wrk 90 hour a week for 10 dllrs even r them its not enough t buy foods
martini9799 2 years ago
humans in general though prefer more choices are you considering their alternatives? they can starve, work hard labor until theyre 40 or 50 before theyre unable to work, they can work in black market trades and services like prostitution, drugs, or weapons, as well some other some better and worse choices you're taking away a viable option for them one that may be tedious and un-fair but work that allows them to work and support themselves and families long after they could if they worked a farm
TheDubVee 2 years ago
your right i agree this is an option for them t ern money in fair way and supoort famillies tht fact both many times condtion there are realy shocking th was movie about 11 yers old girl in bangladesh she was wrkinf for hanes ad ern like 0.5 cents a hour 50 cents a day i think its far not fair fr this kids......even over there its not enough t cover ther needs... second thing its easy for us talking about this when we have normall lifes i th we can talk dfrent if we will work ther ourself
martini9799 2 years ago
its wrong on the corporations fault not the consumer it's annoying to hear people say BOYCOTT COMPANIES THAT USE SWEAT SHOP LABOR that doesn't really do much they tell you something that gives you a warm feeling inside and they keep doing what theyre doing if there's going to be change it has to happen on part of the workers
you want rights, unionize
us boycotting the companies will only end jobs that have been sustaining them
TheDubVee 2 years ago
i'd check out The Cynical Optimist if you have a facebook has several other issues on there you may find interesting
TheDubVee 2 years ago
they are paying them human wages. Their wages are much higher than almost all the other jobs in those countries available for these people. The cost of living is a lot lower than in America so u cant compare their wages to wages here.
KripDrip 1 month ago
It doesn't mean sweathshops are good, they have no other choice... what makes you think it's good?
It's far from being righteous it's an abuse of basics Human Rights and child labor is ever worse
hujintaomustresign3 2 years ago
you mis-interpreted i never said they were good, fair, righteous, etc. i said they were 1 of only a limited amount of choices these people can make when it comes to a job. Generally, people like more choices than less and for some, this is really the only job they can do.
TheDubVee 2 years ago
You mean the only job 'available' because the good jobs are for the priviledged governmental people and their family :)
hujintaomustresign3 2 years ago
@hujintaomustresign3
maybe idk all I'm saying is that they feel it's the only thing they can do. It happened in America about a 100 years ago. The people need to unionize. If we stop buying stuff made there they'll just lose their job.
TheDubVee 2 years ago
Well we should stop buying stufff from there, so they will have to offer better working conditions to them if they want the world to consume, but off course it's not gonna happen anytime soon, because the thug Capitalist savage system has taken over
hujintaomustresign3 2 years ago
@hujintaomustresign3
no they'll just move their operation and make it harder to find than the 1st the companies don't set up the sweat shops it's usually through another company contracted to set them up
2nd capitalism isn't the problem the US was still capitalist when they unionized and created better work standards as for consumer exploitation they can exploit me all they want capitalism isn't the problem in this world what we as a country need to watch out for is crony capitalism look it up
TheDubVee 2 years ago
Who cares, I want them out of China!
hujintaomustresign3 2 years ago
@hujintaomustresign3
why not everywhere else?
TheDubVee 2 years ago
I m from China, if the whole world still need those 'sweathshops' fine, outside of China!
hujintaomustresign3 2 years ago
your not from china, you smelly white cracker pig
36thdivisionROC 1 year ago
Can't save the whole world, I don't claim of being able to do that, but we will kick the sweathshops who are using our people
hujintaomustresign3 2 years ago
how do you know you can't save the whole world? what if every other country had been "saved" but your country, wouldn't you want to have your country saved as well?
TheDubVee 2 years ago
How can you save the whole world?
It's even hard just to bring Freedom and Democracy in our own country
hujintaomustresign3 2 years ago
@hujintaomustresign3
then wouldn't it be just as hard if not harder to bring about the end of sweat shops?
TheDubVee 2 years ago
There will never be a real end to them since they will always move some place else
hujintaomustresign3 2 years ago
List of sweatshops ,Perry Ellis, Pierre Cardin, Puma, Polo Ralph Lauren, Quicksilver, Rampage, Saab Automobile, Saturn, Suzuki, Sean John Clothing, Tommy Hilfiger, Volvo, Vans, Van Hensen, Victoria's Secret (part of Limited Brands), Limited Brands, Wrangler]merican Express , Converse, Gap, Emporio Armani, Motorola, Apple, Hallmark Cards, Dell, Microsoft]Hallmark
huzhutianshi 2 years ago
Some friend gives him Nike shoe, so he does not need to walk with feet or broken shoe. He sometimes cant pay for his rent so I let him to sleep in my house, and feed him. He has so much loans to pay, so he cant spend money at all. That is almost saying homeless who have Nike shoes throw it away, and walk by feet.
Also, almost every brand of cars, cloth, shoes, sports brands, machines use sweatshop.
huzhutianshi 2 years ago
tht right mate i totaly hate this too they just using this poor people to work bcse the dont have a biger choice to survive in my opinion they shuld be law like this if any company prduce stuf abroud th shuld pay t employers same rate like in ther countres huh
martini9799 2 years ago
I am totally against sweatshops and it is gross. It should stop. But one of friend was hated by this adult, because he has several Nike cloths, because it used sweatshop. Yes it is very nice to think about labor who works very cheap, but does he have any idea how poor his finance is. He is basically telling him to throw away his entire Nike shoe and buy different one. Almost all of the cloth he got are from very cheap 2nd hand store, and from garbage.
huzhutianshi 2 years ago
list of sweatshop
Company,Commemorative Brands,Crocs,Deckers,Deluxe Corporation,Drew Pearson Marketing,Inc.,Eddie,Bauer,Fossil,Gear,for,Sports,Gildan,Activewear ,H&M ,Hanesbrands,Harland,Herff Jones,Jostens, Inc.,Knights Apparel,Liz Claiborne,MeadWestvaco Corp.,Milliken and Company,MJ Soffe Co.,Mountain Equipment Co-Op (MEC),New Era,New Wave Group,Nice Apparel,Nike,Nordstrom,Northpole US LLC,Outdoor
huzhutianshi 2 years ago
Well the thing is you wont find many workers in developed countries working in sweatshops, so the companies go to these lifeless countries and make money there, as lifeless I mean in the right to live as a human being. Now the thing is ppl can go disrupting this all they want, but you can end up dead, sweatshops have deals with the mob, and traffikers, why do you think there are mix racialities in these shops.
Pure777Ownage 2 years ago
The thing alot of people dont get is that China is a more capitalist country than us. They're workers have no rights, barely any wage, and then the conservatives turn around and call them socialist. The chinese government just lies to tell the people they are communist, because communism is the only true way people can be free next to anarchism.
Flyingcookiepros 2 years ago
Great song, too bad the dots just don't get connected here in the video to tell the tale of the alleged "sweatshop". In the end, just another crappy powerpoint with random pictures with not substance.
dacuverymuch 2 years ago
I agree with dacuverymuch. This is a mere collection of pictures illustrating misery;too many irrelevant ones; showing factories in the distance or people crying does not necessarily refer to sweatshop. I'm a fair trade activist and a bit disappointed by this diaporama. Mentions of the human rights articles violated in sweatshops would have been useful. still, it's always a good thing to bring the subject.
violetparme 2 years ago
Some people in amercia would want to stop of sweat shops. But sometimes they dont realize that you cant stop the manfucatring goods for everyday amercians. If u did stop it Amercia production would be slow and many ppl will not have the items for need of living
projectxfiles 2 years ago
If I was there, I would have beat the crap out of the companies Employers and bosses, and freed the kids like in Indiana Jones 2
Tacom4ster 2 years ago 3
Fantastic!
dacuverymuch 2 years ago
do u want those kids scavenging in toxic waste dumps or prostituting themselves? thats one of their only alternatives in those countries
KripDrip 1 month ago
@KripDrip Yes and those who frequent those brothels in Taiwan are pedophiles from the US. Proven by ABC.
manchester2000ful 1 month ago
I believe that sweatshops are pure wrong. But I also believe that if people start boycotting clothes or shoes made in these sweatshops, and business fail if like everyone decided to do that for example, than these people will have no where to work. It's true no matter how I hate that everything almost is made in these sweatshops, we have to accept that fact that trying not to buy the shoes alone won't make a difference. Other solutions have to be implemented, whatever those are, I don't know.
MelodiaSeira 2 years ago
If one started boycotting things made in sweatshops. I don't think one would be buying any new clothes, shoes, trainers, or consumer electronics at all. It's pretty much all made in Asian sweatshops now, like the ones in the video.
I see the only real way to avoid cheap labour sweatshop made products, and that is to buy vintage, Where one sees things like Made in England, Made in USA, etc.
mukatuna 2 years ago
@mukatuna Boycotting isn't really going to help. No one is going to do that. People have different needs and since everything is made in Asia these days, their won't be selections for different people. I think their governments need to implement new laws, but that won't happen for a while either.
MelodiaSeira 2 years ago
**sigh** So this is what comes of me giving these humans thought process... A handfull get oprotunistic & decide to take advantage of a larger groups misfortunes based on yet another failure of their misguided thoughs via degenerative govornment... They would have been better off as fish in the ocean or micro organisms
CaptainDaccat 2 years ago
Thank God for Cheap Labour !
Two options,
1. Break your back working in a rice field or
2. Work in a factory.
Because of the rules of Economics, I live like a king !
If it wasn't for this, I wouldn't be able to employ my 150 workers for just less than $900 a month !
I love my business, I love my workers, I love my Profits !
I <3 Business !
Anyone want sneakers or Chinese silk Slippers?
nobby300 2 years ago
my grand mother worked in a rice field, grandpa was in the army and my dad, after the vietnam war my family moved to iowa state then minnesota, i was born in minnesota, sweat shops are horrible my uncle in lao's works in one, he's always sending my parents letters about the conditions the sweat shops are, it piss me off, just coz i'm an american i have to send money to his family coz the sweat shops pay him too low, they think were all rich in america, were not and thats what makes me mad
integra0guy 2 years ago 8
Ok, so let me get this straight...
These people have 2 basic options. Option 1: Break their backs in a rice field, get drafted into the army, or starve.
Option 2: Work in a factory under conditions that modern Americans would not work.
And your solution is to remove option 2....
How does this help? I mean, if they had a better option they wouldn't be working in the factories in the first place.
thegillotine09 2 years ago 2
NO MOTHER FUCKING KIDDING
They MUST have brains though, so what the fuck is their reasoning?
Transfectingood 2 years ago
who's reasoning, the workers'? Well their reasoning is: I can work or starve, so they work.
I'm not sure who 'they' is...
thegillotine09 2 years ago
no, the reasoning of the people who have made hundreds of these videos which are ALL THE SAME - showing workers with sad background music? not ONCE have they put a solution other than "boycott nike". How the fuck will that help? Surely during the hours of video making they've asked that question at least once, right????
Transfectingood 2 years ago 2
I think most people would agree with the fact that all children deserve a fair and equal chance?
Jdelaney555 2 years ago
i just see a bunch of communists that need to be DE-STROYED
JReyes123 2 years ago
That's right!!! Poor people in 3rd world countries deserve to be more poor!!! They shouldn't be allowed to advance their economies and standards of living to modern standards, they need to go back to gathering nuts and berries like their ancestors of hundreds of generations!!!!
Mathewmatic 2 years ago
you sir. are a cocksucker, that is all. tnks.
fallenshoes 2 years ago
You're right, I can't believe WalMart and Ikea are making money off these poor people when they can be even more poor and live the same way they have for the past 8,000 years!!!!
Mathewmatic 2 years ago
I'm still convinced that we should forcibly shut down all the sweatshops in africa and asia, so that these people can go back to living in worse poverty, just as they have been doing for the past 20,000 years. Heaven forbid that industrialization and globilization could kill off 20,000 years of their precious culture!!!
Mathewmatic 2 years ago
this song kills me
run2thru2kings 2 years ago
Well then everybody's going to jail. We all take part in allowing these types of abuses continue simply by putting a shirt on our backs.
mabmab28 2 years ago
i love wearing sweatshop items, i support sweatshops because they work for nothing so the company can make lots of money! chyyea!!!!
breebreeorghorgh 2 years ago
It's fabulous!!! You pay less money for goods, the company has more money to pay it's employees, but OH NO!!!! The sweatshop employees are encountering horrific working conditions and low wages!!!! They would be much better off if they were still gathering nuts and berries like they've been doing for the past 10,000 years
Mathewmatic 2 years ago
I am from the United States. Most products labeled "Made in China" were made in sweatshops. Many of these products have been taken off store shelves for safety reasons. Most Chinese sweatshop workers are women ranging from ages 18 to 35, and many of them are teenage girls, or even 11 or 12 year olds. The People's Republic of China is known to be a big human rights violator.
TediusZanarukando 2 years ago
I'm from the United Kingdom, and I'm using a laptop which is labelled 'Made in China'. It's quite difficult to find a laptop which isn't made in China.
mukatuna 2 years ago
There are some laptops that are made in Taiwan, and some made in Japan. My TV sets (which include a Samsung 40" HDTV set and Samsung 27" SDTV set) were made in Mexico. My Sony amplifier was made in Malaysia.
TediusZanarukando 2 years ago
Aren't Mexico and Malaysia both cheap labour countries which have sweatshops? And both these countries do have child labour issues as well, although probably not with hi-tech type items like HDTVs.
BTW we have laptop in the house here which was actually made in Japan. A rather expensive Sony Vaio. Plus I've seen some older Dell laptops actually made in Ireland. Although I believe Dell have since closed the Irish factory and moved operations to China.
mukatuna 2 years ago
mine was made in California.
Eivan10R 2 years ago
evrything in europe its made in china in our market i can say like over 50 percent of things huh.....
martini9799 2 years ago
Human Rights. I think those children HAVE THE RIGHT to work and earn SOMETHING... rather than NOTHING!!!
what would you have them do? Turn to Begging?? Prostitution? Black Market??
As I said previously and many people have said as well. Given the situation they're in... working in those conditions and earning next to nothing is still good, as much as depressing as that may be to us.
rish1rish 2 years ago 2
nice argument. u didn't add anything to it.
As far as getting beat up... That's more likely a rarity .. not a norm.
Again, what seems like garbage and a couple of pennies to you.. is much more valuable to them.
U don't know shit. And what China does to your people is known worldwide. Don't apply the standards of China to other nations.
rish1rish 2 years ago
UM... BECAUSE SLAVERY WAS FORCED.. .and CHILD LABOR IS NOT.
Children work because the situation at home demands it. If they had a choice... they wouldn't.
Me coming from India would know more than you. What you know bout the "evils" of child labor was given to you by National Geographic or PBS. I've seen it firsthand.
rish1rish 2 years ago
people don't get it. period. They sit in their houses, type nonsense on their IBM's and act as if they're truly concerned.
In Countries where Child labor is used. It IS THE BEST OPTION given the context. What would you have them do? BEG? STARVE? God Forbid... enter the black-market??
what seems harsh to us is shockingly positive to them. Their mindset is... "at least I'm earning something"
Accept Reality.
rish1rish 2 years ago
if you do that then you hurt the people you are trying to help because sweat shops provide jobs. without those people DIE! no matter what the pay. $2 for a day labor is good in other countries
chrismorgan1986 2 years ago
Beggars can't be choosers. This is the only option these people have because they continually allow their leaders to sell out their resources and country.
Why should I worry about their shitty government, when I already have my own shitty gov to deal with?!?!
savemyplaylist 2 years ago
god this has inspired me to work hard to become succesful so that I can pay for these peoples expenses for the rest of their lives.
slayton007 2 years ago
I agree with the comments made about "sweatshops" providing job opportunities. Sure their circumstances aren't ideal and none of us would want to be in their situation, but unfortunately in a country filled with poverty there aren't a lot of choices and these people need jobs to feed whole families. I recommend reading Where Am I Wearing by Kelsey Timmerman which is an easy read that delves into the world of people working in sweatshops.
zeezeeangel 2 years ago
God if it were only that simple.
1) These corporations make enough profit to not only improve these deplorable working conditions but to also pay these "employees" a living wage. They do neither.
2) These same corporations pay gov't officials and the police millions so that the status quo and their own profit margins continue. These people cannot improve their conditions b/c they can't compete against the financing of corrupt politicians and the cops who enforce the hegemony (see frame 00:28).
CGB3 2 years ago
No I understand your point entirely probably more so now then back when i wrote my last comment. It's unfortunate that for many people they don't seem to have a choice and many will choose to work in sweatshops rather than working on farms where their families worked and lived. It is a very complex issue one i hope to learn more about. Cheers for the comment CGB3.
zeezeeangel 2 years ago
song please and I just care about my self. i use to be poor too and nobody was help me. Then I move to USA and my life ok.
SkaterDudeNJ 2 years ago
I usually don't post comments online but I felt like commenting about this issue. Would you rather see them being prostitutes or selling drugs? From what I've read about sweatshops so far, it seems like they don't have any job options that give them as much money as sweatshops. What's so opressive about the people sewing and working in a factory? There are factories in the US. It would be better if you made a video about people forced into prostitution or poor, hungry people.
natb11 2 years ago
Well, as horrible as they may look, at least sweatshops offer cheap high quality goods for Americans, while giving people around the world the chance for employment. Sweatshops give employers a wage twice that most companies in foreign nations might offer them. People are just too sensitive to even do their research. By not buying their cheap goods, you are basically destroying their chance for a good life, or to even earn a wage in life.
Yuber779 2 years ago
no, because the the companies of the sweatshops that employ them use the natural resources (trees, water, minerals, etc.) of their homelands, so that they can't provide subsistence living for themselves. The big companies BUY UP their land so they can't even farm on their own land. They were doing just fine before we got there.
nikkk0123 2 years ago
hey just a by the way, "The High Cost of Low Price" was already used for the title of a documentary about Wal-Mart.... But thats cool
CooleyCoolenson 2 years ago
I have a pair of Nike sneakers, and I stopped wearing them when I found out about what sweatshops are really like.
MetalGearNaked 2 years ago
its better to make $2 a day in a sweatshop than making 50 cents a day scavenging in toxic garbage dumps.
KripDrip 1 month ago
@KripDrip Many of them look like toxic dumps. I am sure there is a lot of sexual and physical abuse going on as well. They go hand in hand bcz most of these kids are less than human to these Corporate Giants. Put one of their snotty kids in this environment and see how the feel. The God almighty $.
manchester2000ful 1 month ago
What can ya do about it?
vboredv 2 years ago
Serious? Even the smallest person can make a diffirence.
GAMENDINGS4U 2 years ago
horrible
gut197 2 years ago
im just kidding...my teacher showed this video to our class
ajcutepagbilao 2 years ago
i yo tem ni i nang mo bas tos ka
ajcutepagbilao 2 years ago
What is this song called?????
LLytwynec 2 years ago
Tears For Fears - Mad worlds
marciobustamante 2 years ago
prophetzen are you against sweatshops or for it?
i have never met a person who says they are libertarian and are against sweatshops
11mc22 2 years ago
yes I am a libertarian and I believe that business should run the way they want as long as they are not harming it's employees or people, but the fact is these big corporations make these international communities repressed, force them into debt, punish them physically, and sustain horrible working conditions, at the price of a employee's well being. I'm not against the act of supplying work to people across 3rd world countries, I'm against how these companies run their business.
prophetzen 2 years ago
and I'm also not implying Government should get involve in any way! It's up to the consumer...
prophetzen 2 years ago
ya the Government need's to help in some way tho...
himynameiscdw 2 years ago
sweatshops are filled with human rights violations but forcing a company to change their ways will drive the sweatshop out of the country to look for cheaper labor making things worse.
and believe it or not no one is forcing them to work overtime either.
11mc22 2 years ago
heres a surprise to the uneducated masses who listens to the media like sheep: no one is forcing them to work in sweatshops, in fact if it wasn't for sweatshops these children would be working on a farm making lower wages or picking up garbage.
here is a real life success country that industrialized because of sweatshops. south korea. 1950 they had a civil war and before that they had the Japanese rulers and the country was reduced to poverty. now they industrialized in less than 50 years
11mc22 2 years ago
thanks to sweatshops, south Koreans had jobs and eventually had opportunity to get education and receive better jobs with higher pay. because of sweatshops south Korea then had building blocks to start businesses.
look at south Korea now, they created Samsung, LG, they are the producer of Hyundai cars and freight ships, they make and invent electronics so all of us can enjoy technology in out lives.
11mc22 2 years ago
this video is just another fear tactic. trying to grasp at your emotions to get your support. i would not work in a sweatshop, but if i was living in a third world country i would work in a sweatshop than pick up garbage. here is reality, in some countries sweatshops pay twice the average wage of that country, better yet people who work in sweatshops are paid 3 times as much than slavishly working on a farm.
11mc22 2 years ago
Can you please tell me where you found that statistic? Sweatshops DO NOT pay LIVING WAGES. These big corps are just finding cheap labor to make their billions. They have no other choice because politics have already taken all the other working options and led them work in these dehumanizing sweatshops.
sheelue 2 years ago
"Sweatshops DO NOT pay LIVING WAGES"
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can you find the quote where i said they were being paid living wages?
i was comparing sweatshop work to other types of work in a developing country such as farming or picking up garbage for a living.
farming in a developing country does not pay much. many farmers in fact move to these sweatshops in order to have a better life.
and yes farming is worse in developing countries since they do not have the machinery we have.
11mc22 2 years ago
I don't think you understand that these people are left with no choices because our govt. and their govt's are money and power hungry and even with those they are not willing to takie responsibility for their actions. The people in the sweatshops have no other choice, the only other choice is to starve and the only way their conditions will improve is changes in the factory practices.
sheelue 2 years ago
"the only other choice is to starve"
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um what?
because of sweatshops many people can now afford education.
11mc22 2 years ago
"only way their conditions will improve is changes in the factory practices."
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good luck with that.
by forcing higher factory standards you will drive work out of the country because transnationals look for cheaper labor.
what you will have left is unemployment.
you have to let sweatshops get better on their own and they naturally do.
11mc22 2 years ago
It's because too many people have that same mentality that so many others are left starving and hungry. These sweatshops have gone on and on and on for decades and they haven't gotten any better. And by forcing higher factory standards, the firms will not just move from that country because moving doesn't mean they won't practice their dehumanizing ways, they'll have to contract new policies and have them on record or their business won't go.
sheelue 2 years ago
"These sweatshops have gone on and on and on for decades and they haven't gotten any better"
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maybe you don't know where south Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong is.
i guess in your world they don't exist
11mc22 2 years ago
Well do you know how they got out of it? IT's because the US bailed them out of Communism.
sheelue 2 years ago
"Well do you know how they got out of it? IT's because the US bailed them out of Communism."
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the reason why communism doesn't work is because it doesn't let businesses run as they want to.
your pushing for communism by forcing laws and telling businesses on how they should run.
hong kong and south korea thrived because of these sweatshops and economic freedom.
you can't go against communism while going against sweatshops
11mc22 2 years ago
india has a democracy yet it is a very poor country
the reason why is because there are so many regulations trying to protect workers when in reality it keeps them away from work.
if sweatshops were opened many indians who pick up garbage for a living might have something better
11mc22 2 years ago
"Can you please tell me where you found that statistic?"
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Cato institute, independent institute, Fraser institute, Nicholas Kristof from new york times, Ronald Bailey from Reason magazine.
11mc22 2 years ago
Thats not specific enough
sheelue 2 years ago
i hope you got the PM with the website
11mc22 2 years ago
"Many studies have shown that multinational firms pay more than domestic firms in Third World countries."
-thats because the political world drove out all the other jobs that pay decent. The majority of the people are forced to work for sweatshops. Does it look like they have a real choice? It's a lose lose situation.
sheelue 2 years ago
"thats because the political world drove out all the other jobs that pay decent.'
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lol
driving out the good jobs will be worse for the economy and the government since the government won't have anything to tax.
so why would they allow sweatshops?
good jobs don't magically appear.
sweatshops will create wealth for the economy and later those countries will be well off afterwards with decent paying jobs
11mc22 2 years ago
Sweatshops are in the middle of a viscious cycle and nothing will change if the consumers refuse to acknoledge the facts.
If you cannot see the cycle then you are obviously not ready for the real world
sheelue 2 years ago
"Sweatshops are in the middle of a viscious cycle and nothing will change if the consumers refuse to acknoledge the facts. "
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since you are repeating yourself I'll repeat myself
south korea and hong kong thrived because of economic freedom
democracy brought economic freedom and thus a thriving country
democracy itself doesn't produce thriving country, freedom does.
11mc22 2 years ago
places such as Kenya does not allow its own citizens to start their own business easily. but it is also difficult to start a sweatshop in those countries as well.
11mc22 2 years ago
again, this is all part of the cycle
sheelue 2 years ago
"again, this is all part of the cycle"
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if this cycle does exist tell me why Korea and Hong Kong haven't yet gone back to poverty.
11mc22 2 years ago
Maybe because Hong Kong was ruled by a European Nation for 30 years and Korea was BOUGHT out of communism for billions and billions from the US.
sheelue 2 years ago
"and Korea was BOUGHT out of communism for billions and billions from the US. "
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US "bought" Korea out of communism?
are you serious? you really think that's why Korea is a democracy?
USA and south Korea fought against the North and the Russians and the Chinese.
when there was no victory in sight all the US could do was put a line at 38th parallel dividing communism from democracy.
the reason why south Korea thrives is because communism doesn't work!
do you know how LG got started?
11mc22 2 years ago
Communisn obviously doesn't work. It takes too much tolerance and unselfishness which many people do not have. Anyway, I wasn't arguing that point. -
Do you know what happened to Korea after that? The US gave billions of dollars to South Korea to start a democracy in fear that they will fall uner communist rule.
sheelue 2 years ago
"The US gave billions of dollars to South Korea to start a democracy in fear that they will fall uner communist rule."
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but it was economic freedom that brought them out of poverty
you should see what Korea looked like just 40 years ago and how much as changed.
many businesses have started because of the freedom to work.
11mc22 2 years ago
And i supposed you've seen Korea 40 years ago?
Economic Freedom <-- that is the key. We are blocking countries from having that "Economic Freedom". Here in the US, the "Land of Opportunity", if you have not noticed, we are losing our economic freedom extremely fast. We are in a recession for a reason.
sheelue 2 years ago
"And i supposed you've seen Korea 40 years ago?"
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no but there are always books
11mc22 2 years ago
with pictures
11mc22 2 years ago
in that case, I have seen korea 40 years ago
sheelue 2 years ago
"We are in a recession for a reason."
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all i know about what caused it is something about the housing market Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, and artificially low interest rates because of government intervention, and super spending by consumers and bush with money that they don't have with iraq war and so on. because of artificially low interest rates.
or something like that
11mc22 2 years ago
do you also know that we are losing the middle class because of all this? and because the middle class are our biggest consumers, the sweatshops are even worse off? Do you also know that artificially low interest rates come with a set price ceiling? Which we do not have meaning we do not have an atificially low interest rate.
sheelue 2 years ago
LG is short for Lucky and Goldstar a business that started out simply making radios and television.
and these electronic companies made it because they had cheap labour.
later they were able to expand.
11mc22 2 years ago
"Maybe because Hong Kong was ruled by a European Nation for 30 years "
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uh no maybe its because Hong Kong is a very capitalist nation
the heritage foundation ranked countries by economic freedom
Hong Kong is number one and continues to be that way. and it is very strange that all the countries at rank the highest in economic freedom are also one of the richest countries in the world.
11mc22 2 years ago
although the Europeans did rule, they did not interfere with Hong Kong's market.
ever since the 1950's and they still are the most capitalist country
11mc22 2 years ago
No. They did interfere with Hong Kong's market. They would not rule Hong Kong unless they could make a profit and how else could they do so?
sheelue 2 years ago
"They would not rule Hong Kong unless they could make a profit and how else could they do so?"
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not as much as you might think
but it wasn't the intervention that made Hong Kong very wealthy although some intervention might have helped.
anyways there used to be lots of sweatshops in hong kong plus child labour and because of that they became wealthy.
11mc22 2 years ago
<__< That is not why they are wealthy. There are plenty of poor areas that can easily be considered the slums. AND the sweatshops did not bring them up to wealth. Sweatshops still go on in Hon Kong everyday. It's just less publicized.
sheelue 2 years ago
"There are plenty of poor areas that can easily be considered the slums."
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there are slums all over the world
overall hong kong is much better than they were off before
11mc22 2 years ago
in no way shape or form was it because of the sweatshops.
sheelue 2 years ago
"in no way shape or form was it because of the sweatshops. "
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i guess saying just sweatshops made hong kong rich is wrong.
because it wasn't just sweatshops
Britain colonized Hong Kong because they didn't want the Chinese to take it over and put forth communism. when china was taken over by communism there was a huge amount of immigrants that moved to hong kong.
anyways Cowperthwaite was sent to be a financial secretary there.
11mc22 2 years ago
Are you trying to tell me that the sweatshops are a form of colonization? It's a form of undercover slavery. It's where girls as young as 10 get raped and abused, where mothers feel like they've sinned because they could not get out of work to tend to their sick children because if they do they get fired and have a VERY little chance of finding another job, meaning starvation for both mother and child.
sheelue 2 years ago
"Are you trying to tell me that the sweatshops are a form of colonization"
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um when did i say that?
i was just going over the basic history of hong kong
11mc22 2 years ago
"It's where girls as young as 10 get raped and abused"
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unless you can find a better alternative than sweatshops be my guest
North America can send all the Foreign aid it wants to but it will get sucked up my the government.
in the long term sweatshops are better
there are girls as young as 10 who sell their bodies because they don't have jobs
sweatshops can pull these people out of that lifestyle.
11mc22 2 years ago
some people in Africa can now afford mosquito nets to keep out malaria in their homes.
and again despite the myth, no one is forcing them to work overtime and no one is forcing them to work in sweatshops
sweatshops in Taiwan, Singapore, south Korea is so much better than they were off before
be patient and give it time
11mc22 2 years ago
"despite the myth, no one is forcing them to work overtime and no one is forcing them to work in sweatshops"
Do you know why I use the word FORCE? it's because they are FORCED to work in sweatshops because they have no ECONOMIC FREEDOM. and because of this, young girls who cannot find jobs turn to prostitution. Do you actually think girls in underdeveloped countries want to sell their bodies?
sheelue 2 years ago