Good 'ol Gap

Undertoad · 01-05-2002, 06:50 PM

Shhh. Someone might not know they have it bad if you guys post loud enough.

I was kinda wondering if anyone would ever get around to asking the folks who are supposedly downtrodden whether they'd prefer the lives they had before such international atrocities. Why do they make shoes? Is it because their other choice was sadistic torture - or because their other choice was dirt farming?

If it were the former, would the armchair concerned amongst us be angling for Nike to move its factories overseas. And take advantage of that cheap labor - at any cost - to improve their lives, open up the possibilities.

I was also kinda wondering if there ARE any Americans, other than immigrants, who would accept a job such as making shoes. From what I understand, there are a lot of communities in the US where illegal labor does the work, not because the work doesn't pay enough, but because nobody else will DO it. This is a different world from 50 years ago.

01-05-2002, 06:50 PM	#28
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Shhh. Someone might not know they have it bad if you guys post loud enough. I was kinda wondering if anyone would ever get around to asking the folks who are supposedly downtrodden whether they'd prefer the lives they had before such international atrocities. Why do they make shoes? Is it because their other choice was sadistic torture - or because their other choice was dirt farming? If it were the former, would the armchair concerned amongst us be angling for Nike to move its factories overseas. And take advantage of that cheap labor - at any cost - to improve their lives, open up the possibilities. I was also kinda wondering if there ARE any Americans, other than immigrants, who would accept a job such as making shoes. From what I understand, there are a lot of communities in the US where illegal labor does the work, not because the work doesn't pay enough, but because nobody else will DO it. This is a different world from 50 years ago.

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