Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Not only that way, a couple of well-known NZ brands (Ice Breaker and Swanndri) used to be 100% NZ made and not especially cheap. In the past few years they have 'off-shored', but still using NZ wool, but the end price never came down..... john > -----Original Message----- > > 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 > > > > 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 > > >> > > >> 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 > > >>>