On 9/26/2015 7:20 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 9/26/2015 1:33 AM, J. Clarke wrote:


And if the manufacturer makes his product using slave and/or child
labor?

This has come up wit other groups and other products. Child labor is
a problem in some countries, but not buying the product is not the
answer.
If you put those factories out of business the kids can no longer
afford a bowl of rice. What is the solution? Since you want them shut
down, you must have a better idea.

Buying products manufactured with slave or child labor only perpetuates
that abuse and that poverty. Buy the competing product that costs
just a
little bit more and pays a free adult a better wage so they can send
their
kids to school.

Period.


So let the other kids starve? I don't see where you offered a solution,
just some self righteous posturing.

So you're saying that in China the options are to be slave-labor for
Apple and Nike or to starve? So much for Communism and the state-
controlled economy.


I don't see where I said that or brought particular brands into the mix.

In India, a bunch of do-gooders from outside were demanding the children
not work for a clothing manufacturer. The kids begged them to go away
because without the meager wages, they had nothing.

If for have a solution, I'm all for it, but don't put them out of work
until you do. I'm not in favor of child labor, but I'm against starvation.

Ask your parents and grandparents when they went to work. Many of them
did not finish elementary school because they had to go to work to help
support the family.

Exactly. This is a lesson of don't tell me what is good for me until
you have walked a mile in my shoes. Don't help me starve to death.