Child labour in XXIst century - another affair

[Legendary Apophis]

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?

[MEZZANINE]

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.

[Coulson]

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.

[Legendary Apophis]

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.

[MEZZANINE]

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.

[[KMA]Avenger]

This sort of relates to the topic at hand: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-573 ... s-suicide/

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/02/f ... hina/all/1

[Alpha13snake]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vdS0TP9lXQ

Watch in horror.

[Legendary Apophis]

Hmm...I am watching with skepticism.