Let's say you buy a pair of $100 shoes. Those shoes were probably made in a sweatshop in China or Bangladesh or Indonesia. The company probably paid the people who made those shoes about 10-15 cents per hour. It probably cost the company a couple dollars to make the shoe and ship it to the United States. Do you know how much the company spends to market that shoe? Something like $20! And then the rest is all profit for the corporation and its millionaire CEO.
Why doesn't this make more people mad??! It sure makes me mad!
The corporation is exploiting not just poor laborers in third world countries, but American consumers by overcharging the consumer for goods which were much cheaper to produce.
But I think a lot of the problem is with the consumer. The consumer is victim to advertising, and fickle. The consumer wants to be convinced, and needs celebrities in TV commercials to convince him.
What can we do to stop this?
2006-10-04
16:34:49
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