Everything we wear today is sweatshops or supposedly made at sweatshop in some poverty ridden country. The sweatshop workers, work with dangerous equipment and get paid three cents an hour. This is the argument of people who believe sweatshops are terrible and are an outrage to society. Sweatshops are set in place so that people can make money, and produce products to send all over the world. Just like a 9 to 5 job the workers are earning a form of currency that they can spend. I do not believe sweatshops are bad. In response to Keith Donnelly’s post, and to many other people who argue against sweatshops, if you do not agree with what these people are being put through then you probably shouldn’t be wearing the Nike shoes on your feet, the Polo jeans on your legs, the north face jacket that keeps you warm, or the new era baseball cap on your head. People like to argue about the dangerous conditions that the laborers in sweatshops work in. Have you ever walked past or stood outside of Pollock to see the men who are building the new building by the student health center? That is a pretty dangerous job. Also, I would argue that those men aren’t making a very pretty salary. Those construction workers are busting their backside to build a building they probably will never be in more than once in their lives. Their job is also dangerous and underpaid, why is no one crying out to help them?
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This is the beauty of capitalism. Labor is outsourced to impoverished nations with a large work force who is willing to work for less. If cheap labor is readily available, why pay someone else more for the same work? Wealth maximization, in my opinion, is abused. Also, there are certain professions such as construction that cannot be outsourced. That is why they receive the low wages that they do. The companies pay them as little as possible but still enough to ensure that they will have workers. I blame it all on capitalism.
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