Nike’s continued growth in Cambodia underscores the level of political and labor repression the company has been willing to tolerate in countries that provide inexpensive labor.
It’s vote with your dollars, which does in a sense shift blame to the consumer.
This doesn’t have anything to do with trump though, its been going on forever. There will always be rich countries and poor countries. Poor countries provide labor for the rich.
The better argument to make is that $208 is higher than the average wage in the country for unskilled labor. That doesn’t make it right, and it looks like shit when you break it down to ‘I paid $45 for this shirt, and that’s one of the 209 shirts that person made on Tuesday’.
It’s vote with your dollars, which does in a sense shift blame to the consumer.
This doesn’t have anything to do with trump though, its been going on forever. There will always be rich countries and poor countries. Poor countries provide labor for the rich.
The better argument to make is that $208 is higher than the average wage in the country for unskilled labor. That doesn’t make it right, and it looks like shit when you break it down to ‘I paid $45 for this shirt, and that’s one of the 209 shirts that person made on Tuesday’.
Yeah. Valid points, all. Looking at cost of living vs income is always important as well.