Help me here people!

Oh lawd

What wonderfully curious children you have. Who was it this time?

Well, becuz we want to maintain our high standard of living, we let the people in China do our crappy work. Also, they have smaller hands for the assembling of your toys and do not care if they work in toxic environment.
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Fauxie said:

Oscar! He asked me 2 years ago, "if God made everyone, who made God?"



I told him to ask Mrs Alabaster, his RE teacher

ZombieKitten said:

And what answer did he get from Mr Alabaster?

ZombieKitten said:

Cute.

And nice passing the buck there.

because that way you don't have to think too much about where anything and everything was made. You automatically know it was made in china.

HamsterHuey said:

I'm sure it starts with the fact their wages are still just a fraction of ours, and their workforce is enormous. The toxic thing is unfortunate - is there no national Occupational Health and Safety body yet whose rules MUST be adhered to? or unions to protect the workforce? they probably don't know the dangers of what they are exposed to I'm sure they would care if they did.

HamsterHuey said:

a total cop-out "nobody knows that" she said



hell, I could have told him that!

ArielB said:

well they've come a long way! when I was a kid, everything was made in Taiwan.

ZombieKitten said:

I'm sure they know exactly how bad it is, but what can they do??

ZombieKitten said:

Things aren't made so much in Thailand either. Not cheap enough anymore. No more sweatshops, the country's not poor enough.

Fauxie said:

I saw a doco about Ericsson's mobile phone factory, and the workers were eating lunch next to a large vat of chemicals. Nobody seemed to know what it was in there exactly. The company providing the parts to Ericsson needed to cut corners (and were totally prepared to do so) to do it for the price they were screwed down to. Ericsson's people were appalled, yet how can they be sure that if they agree to higher prices that anything will change (ie. conditions) except the profit margin

ZombieKitten said:

Was that their answer or yours?

It's their shit being made, yet somehow it's supposed to be accepted that they can't control conditions in the factories? It all sucks, and yet we love it.

God© Made In China

Fauxie said:

that is my observation after watching

ZombieKitten said:

Surely they should monitor these things, but the truth is of course they just want to farm it all out, deal with the finances, get the products and turn a blind eye to quite how it all gets done.

Fauxie said:

yup

I wish some things could just be made law like if your manufacturer does NOT have XX safety standards etc, they cannot be contracted, but I guess certification can simply be bought.

ZombieKitten said:

"Cheap labor."

ZombieKitten said:

I still ask that question (especially to the religious folk).

HamsterHuey said:

Don't you just love children, and their curious minds!

Ace said:

go make me some Nikes