John Stossel ABC News: Are Sweatshops factories good?

John Stossel asks people from Kenya and India and they say sweatshops improve the economy in those countries.

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[StupidCommentsMademe]

@phenomenalclassic93 Are the people of Zimbabwe better than the African American's living in the U.S.? Ironically most people were slaves to begin with....But to be honest don't really think the slave masters were convincing anyone when they brought slaves into the country to be well slaves.... There is a difference between choosing to work for money vs being forced to work as a slave.

[spmcfar87]

@20jandrews We did pick up a history book!

[phenomenalclassic93]

didnt slave masters say the same thing about the africans who they captured? a lot of them saying how africans coming to america meant a better life yet it actually equated to 300 + years of abuse

[20jandrews]

if its not that bad maybe we should have sweatshop in america

[DannyMac100]

John Stossel. What a boss.

[ninuxy]

@dabagua Calling someone a homie is condescending! A sensitive one we got here.

I am a proponent of free and "fair" market. Perhaps, you unload your presumptuous ass as soon as you hear someone points out a flaw in the system that is anything but a derivative of free enterprise.

Try to get the premise right then draw your mindless conclusions. "You" are not the issue here. It's the system where a well off corporation is exploiting oppressed workers through a proxy.

So keep walking homie.

[daobagua]

@ninuxy Lol. you called me homie (and in a condescending way no less). You know what, I don't have to prove shit, you have to prove that the people in the 19th and 20th century who moved on mass to the city were doing so because they were having a worse life before the evil free market came. You need to justify why I earn far over the minimum mandated wage (I think it is because of competition of employers, but you seem to think that is not the case, as "The issue is not competition"). Cya Homie

[ninuxy]

@daobagua The issue is not competition. There were plenty of competition in late 19th and early 20th century in America too, but that didn't stop the owners to mistreat the workers. The issue is the people who, with backing and blessing of the large corporations, create an environment that literally enslaves the workers for no pay which keeps them at a perpetual life-long poverty. You are in a Lala land, prattling about text book market residual effect.

You are long away from McDonald's homie.

[daobagua]

@ninuxy I am afraid that the only intractable person here is you. There is not sufficient competition of employers, or the wage would be higher and the productivity would be higher, which together would justify higher wages. But this takes time to build, fortunately this transition can happen quicker then ever before.

Your argument regarding what I have asked them is fallacious. My argument was the make the point that safety is a cost born by the corp, who will decrease investment as a result.

[ninuxy]

@daobgua We're not talking about competitions but rather inhumane working condition of certain group of workers who see no gain for their toil. You're still stuck in your academic pabulum of humbug to assuage your confirmation bias. There are plenty of competition; the prevailing system needs to be changed. You're intractable.

Have you asked them whether they wish to work in a better environment & get paid $2 a day? The cost increase is paid by the corps. in exchange for better labor condition.