http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-1 ... otton.html
It's too long to quote, but basically that famous brand of female underwear trying to appear as good by using fair trade program, in reality uses cotton coming from Burkina Faso where child labour is used.
What's your opinion about child labour?
Child labour in XXIst century - another affair
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Re: Child labour in XXIst century - another affair
Legendary Apophis wrote:http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-15/victoria-s-secret-revealed-in-child-picking-burkina-faso-cotton.html
It's too long to quote, but basically that famous brand of female underwear trying to appear as good by using fair trade program, in reality uses cotton coming from Burkina Faso where child labour is used.
What's your opinion about child labour?
Sickening.............. but nothing new, putting profit before people is very common, lots of top brands have been exposed for doing it over the years and yet those brands still survive and thrive because we the consumers keep buying them regardless.
Truth is every successful civilisation in history has had slaves at the bottom, we just hide it better to ease on consciouses by having the slaves in countries far from home and out of sight.
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Re: Child labour in XXIst century - another affair
It's cheap.
You're a slave too. Just the best kind, the one that doesn't realise they're slaves.
Child labor is kept in this world to make your position look better. Simple if there're kids that die working making our shoes, we won't complain about our own restrictions of freedom. It's used as a perspectivechanger.
You're a slave too. Just the best kind, the one that doesn't realise they're slaves.
Child labor is kept in this world to make your position look better. Simple if there're kids that die working making our shoes, we won't complain about our own restrictions of freedom. It's used as a perspectivechanger.
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Re: Child labour in XXIst century - another affair
Stuart Gordon wrote:It's cheap.
You're a slave too. Just the best kind, the one that doesn't realise they're slaves.
Child labor is kept in this world to make your position look better. Simple if there're kids that die working making our shoes, we won't complain about our own restrictions of freedom. It's used as a perspectivechanger.
That's a flawed reason. However the first that it's "cheap", is indeed one reason why it still exists, brands close their eyes about how it's done to make prices cheaper for them.
Slaves? Only marxists would believe workers in our nations (well except the cases of slavery still existing in our nations) happen to be slaves.
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Re: Child labour in XXIst century - another affair
Legendary Apophis wrote:Stuart Gordon wrote:It's cheap.
You're a slave too. Just the best kind, the one that doesn't realise they're slaves.
Child labor is kept in this world to make your position look better. Simple if there're kids that die working making our shoes, we won't complain about our own restrictions of freedom. It's used as a perspectivechanger.
That's a flawed reason. However the first that it's "cheap", is indeed one reason why it still exists, brands close their eyes about how it's done to make prices cheaper for them.
Slaves? Only marxists would believe workers in our nations (well except the cases of slavery still existing in our nations) happen to be slaves.
Depends how you look at it, anyone who works for subsistence level wages is a wageslave, only difference between owned-slaves and a wage-slaves is the way you control them. Owned-slaves are controlled through fear, violence, deprivation, wage-slaves are controlled with little trinkets and rewards. Comes down to using the carrot or the stick. Those that get the carrot are glad they are not getting the stick, and those getting the stick envy those getting the carrot.
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Re: Child labour in XXIst century - another affair
This sort of relates to the topic at hand: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-573 ... s-suicide/
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The Normalcy Bias
The normalcy bias refers to an extreme mental state people enter when facing a disaster. It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects. This often results in situations where people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster, and on a larger scale, the failure of the government to include the populace in its disaster preparations. The assumption that is made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred that it never will occur. It also results in the inability of people to cope with a disaster once it occurs. People with a normalcy bias have difficulties reacting to something they have not experienced before. People also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious situation.
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Hmm...I am watching with skepticism.
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