Mardi Gras: Made in China - A Movie about Exploitation of Cheap Chinese Labor

[JanieDough]

YouTube - Mardi Gras:Made In China

My friend went to see this and said she will never look at a Mardi Gras bead the same way again.

She says it is amazing how most our shit is Made In China and we "Don't know. Don't care."

I think as Americans, or just as citizens of any industrialized country, we have to adapt this mind set because what in our daily lives do we use that WASN'T made in some factory by some poor young citizen of a third world country for only pennies a day???

What if anything can we do about it?


It almost makes me respect the hippy freaks who walk around without shoes and wear clothes made of hemp.

 

[Goat Whisperer]

There was this Chinese dude at a debate tournament that did a speech on child labor for his oratory. While he did a good job at making me feel terrible for consuming Chinese products, he didn't really say what we could do about it. Really in the end, there isn't much we can do. If we stop supporting companies that use children or that use underpaid workers, those people will just lose their jobs; and most likely end up starving to death or something. What are we supposed to do?