09-30-2002, 09:56 AM
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Originally posted by LennonCook:
And it isn`t only WalMart that does it.
As alot of people would know, MOST multinational companies have factories in the middle east, where there are no enforced laws about suitable working conditions and minimum wage.
Add to that the fact that the companies have safeguards built up, such as not actually *owning* the factories, but rather hiring their services; and giving the factories working conditions to abide by (the companies give them working conditions, so it isn`t their fault if the factories don`t follow them  ); and suddenly you have quality goods at inexpensive prices, and profit for the owners of the companies, and not one bit of it is in any way criminal.
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So the real question is...who is to blame? Is it the company that puts a factory there thus giving the people SOME way of making a pittance....who other wise would have no way of earning anything? Or is it the government of said country that represses its people and keeps them in poverty? And just who are WE to tel them to change their "culture"? Seems to me that your kind of damned no matter what you do...all you can change is which group damns you.
[ 09-30-2002, 09:56 AM: Message edited by: MagiK ]
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