Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As long as the Us is addicted to cheap goods and cheap fuel, nothing in the world will change. The latter is far more insidious than the former! By the way, the Bangladeshis working in these sweatshops are far better off than the vast majority of their brethren in the rural areas, as is true for China, India, Sri Lanka, wherever. Cheers Jayanand On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>wrote: > Right. And how do we in the West help them get better jobs? By not buying > the products of the companies that act in such a callous way is the > instinctive reaction. Question is whether this will make the companies > behave better or simply throw people out of work. Bad, dangerous jobs are > better than no jobs. > > So no, it is neither obvious nor simple. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > On May 9, 2013, at 8:17 AM, Richard Man wrote: > > > Well the answers are pretty obvious: > > > > Do they want the jobs? Yes, of course. > > > > Would they prefer the jobs to be better? Of course. > > > > > > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu > >wrote: > > > >> Yes. Thanks for posting, I have not seen this. > >> > >> I have been thinking more about the choices I will be making when > shopping > >> for clothes from now on. Despite the horrors of this, not an easy > decision. > >> Actually, I would like to know what the Bangladeshis themselves think. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Nathan > >> > >> Nathan Wajsman > >> Alicante, Spain > >> http://www.frozenlight.eu > >> http://www.greatpix.eu > >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > >> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > >> > >> YNWA > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On May 9, 2013, at 7:10 AM, Richard Man wrote: > >> > >>> In one image: > >>> > >> > http://lightbox.time.com/2013/05/08/a-final-embrace-the-most-haunting-photograph-from-bangladesh > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > >>> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Leica Users Group. > >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >>> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >