I've been locking horns with r/neoliberal on the topic of sweatshops and child labour, but they dig in their heels and insist that such practices are somehow benevolent and helpful. Some of them parrot Reaganite dogma to justify what amounts to wage slavery.
My solution is this: If Western companies can't be bothered to adopt ethical labour practices even if it means slightly lower profits for Pina colada sipping rich overlords, then the governments and working people of the world must take action. Enforce strict labour laws governing working conditions, overtime, etc. Create environments that are favourable to the creation of unions for garment workers.
I'm not saying that using sweatshops is good it is terrible and shouldn't be a thing and we should absolutely fight against and stop the use of them. But I have a problem when I see people hate on athletes signing with Nike/ Nike ads and lash out against Nike for using sweatshops (despite most of their clothing probably coming from sweatshops as well) but ignore most other brands that use sweatshops like Sketchers. I'm not saying we shouldn't hate on Nike I'm just confused why people act in this way.
Yara’s “business” “boutique” is buying clothes from sites like Alibaba and Aliexpress sweatshops and saying they were handmade specifically for her insta company. No. Do not support her business. Aside from that, all her products are NOT vegan or cruelty free. So they’re supporting animal testing. Don’t support them.
That’s all. Freedom of speech!
Edit: Since it’s flying over some people’s heads. The whole freedom of speech is a jab at something Yara said in a insta post lol
Sources:
https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/people-and-poverty/slavery-and-sweatshops/sweatshop-workers-conditions/story
https://www.measuringworth.com/slavery.php
I'm sure I may have gotten something wrong but I'm sure I'm not far from the real calculation even if I'm wrong.
How can we do this to each other as a humanity? This is so cruel.
I feel like this movement won't be successful unless everyone in the world gets paid a fair share. Otherwise we may be hypocrites by getting ours as a nation while we ourselves continue to exploit cheap Labor overseas where the suffering is out of sight and has no voice.
This movement needs to be greater than that.
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I believe this is usually called out as an appeal to hypocrisy fallacy. The argument goes as the following “If I say it is wrong to kill animals for food, but I cause harm elsewhere by buying other products of human exploitation, that doesn’t make killing animals right, does it? It is impossible to cause zero harm, and no vegan claims perfection, we’re just trying to reduce our impact as far as practicable and possible."
But the issue is what people regard as practical and possible differ. If your someone who lives in a community who heavily relies on meat and your family have little tolerance of other diets, I would say that becoming a vegan isn't practical.
From most peoples perspectives i would say cutting out consumption of products from sweatshops is much easier than vegan. But people who advocate for that offer a much less deontological approach to changing the behaviour. Whereas veganism has very little nuance.
Over at r/neoliberal, they’re fiercely supportive of sweatshops and they troll anyone opposed to sweatshops with,”Why do you hate the global poor?”. They seem really ignorant to the working conditions of sweatshops but I’m wondering if they’re right and I’m just naive. I acknowledge that sweatshops pay more than alternatives in poor countries but I don’t think that justifies that their horrid working conditions. All I way improvement in safety standards without it coming out of workers wages, but I’ve been denigrated for even that in neoliberal.
How is that worker's emancipation? Even if they're owned by foreign companies, how is China staying true to socialist principles by allowing such exploitation?
I already have a couple of pretty major problems with China, but one of the main points why I consider it pseudo-socialist is my notion that sweatshops operate there.
So is it true?
I'm looking to have my mind changed about China because Im critically supportive of several socialist and even Marxist Leninist countries (im not an ML) like Cuba, Vietnam and formerly USSR in certain time periods.
For all you music enthusiasts out there who need more anthems for fighting the system, Sweatshop Union has plenty of good ones.
"Office Space", "Today", and "Radio Edit" are a few good songs to start with, but most of their albums are good in general.
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Alright listen a couple days ago i was at apple bees and geuss what some fat bitch came up to me and asked me for 5 bucks for fucking ice cream and i needed to get more sweatshop workers especially kids so i said “hey theres ice cream in my van” and that fat fuck took the bait. When we got to my basement where all the other workers were she didn’t comply so when one of my men got the belt then she was good at the $0.75 an hour job so think about that next time you buy a iPhone we might track your location
On Day 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, NYTW Usual Suspect Kristina Wong began sewing masks out of old bedsheets and bra straps on her Hello Kitty sewing machine. Before long, she was leading the Auntie Sewing Squad, a work-from-home sweatshop of hundreds of volunteers—including children and her own mother—to fix the U.S. public health care system while in quarantine. It was a feminist care utopia forming in the midst of crisis. Or was it a mutual aid doomsday cult?
As the demand for masks abates and we begin to return safely to space, Kristina is beginning to put her life together post-pandemic cult leadership. With hilarity and boundless generosity, she invites the audience in on her work building community in isolation, while reflecting on what we’ve been through and imagining what we want to become. NYTW Usual Suspect Chay Yew (The Architecture of Loss, Oedipus El Rey) directs.
Running time: 01:40:08
(1080p, mp4, 2.47 GB, English subtitles, srt)
Base64 decode: aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWdhLm56L2ZvbGRlci9NdHAwMkFDYSNCM3h6TEpoanRQQWhmaTduV2tKVnB3
Over at r/neoliberal, they’re fiercely supportive of sweatshops and they troll anyone opposed to sweatshops with,”Why do you hate the global poor?”. They seem really ignorant to the working conditions of sweatshops but I’m wondering if they’re right and I’m just naive. I acknowledge that sweatshops pay more than alternatives in poor countries but I don’t think that justifies that their horrid working conditions. All I way improvement in safety standards without it coming out of workers wages, but I’ve been denigrated for even that in neoliberal.
