Comments on: Wardrobe ethics: go green or go home… http://funiculifunicula.wordpress.com/2008/01/06/wardrobe-ethics-go-green-or-go-home/ yet had I to crave an inscription on my grave I would ask for none other than "the individual" Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:05:31 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: bebeghost http://funiculifunicula.wordpress.com/2008/01/06/wardrobe-ethics-go-green-or-go-home/#comment-148 bebeghost Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:54:46 +0000 http://funiculifunicula.wordpress.com/2008/01/06/wardrobe-ethics-go-green-or-go-home/#comment-148 The thing with "sweatshop" clothes is, at least in China, they are actually some of the "best" places people can go to get work. Sure compared to here in America it does seem unethical, but people there would probably kill to get that kind of job. And while the sweatshops don't have the best conditions, their alternatives are actually even worse. And they get paid more than what they would have been paid elsewhere for the same job. :: shrug :: The thing with “sweatshop” clothes is, at least in China, they are actually some of the “best” places people can go to get work. Sure compared to here in America it does seem unethical, but people there would probably kill to get that kind of job.

And while the sweatshops don’t have the best conditions, their alternatives are actually even worse. And they get paid more than what they would have been paid elsewhere for the same job.

:: shrug ::

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