So you thought your job was bad.
 

Saw this on another forum and thought I should share it.

Un fucking real. Poor bastards. All I could think is that someone is making a shit ton of money.

Really puts things into perspective. I saw a lot of similar shit when I went to China when I toured some of the docks. My dad's an executive there for a German shipping firm, and when we toured it my dad and his fellow executives are like in tailored suits, underneath umbrellas held by some interns, and we got chauffeured everywhere/ wined and dined by the dock owners with expensive wines and shit (who threw everything and the kitchen sink at my dad's company to win a contract), while kids as young as 12 were lifting heavy metal, breathing in paint, fumes, dust, etc, with no protective gear in like 300 degree weather with more humidity than Rosie O'Donnell's arm-pit, making 10 cents an hr. It's sad how cheap human life is in places like China, India, Pakistan, etc. etc.

A good movie called Manufactured Landscapes from 2006 had section that depicted this very well.

It's saddening indeed.

fuck.

Is sad but at the same time we ingore it. Look at Apple, their Ipad is produce in china where this factory way way under paid their workers, many workers commit sucide (it was even on the news) yet we chose to ingore it. Another example is Nike, hiring 10years old making maybe 8 to 10RMB (china currency) to produce the shoes we wear. It was on the news. Same with all those goods that we use that come from 3rd world country.

What do we do? Nothing we hear the news gets mad and contiune to use/by these produces.

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Work 7 days a week, 12 hours per day, at 22¢ per hour, on a job that is literally killing you.

these workers choose to gamble their lives in their own free will. they can move out to the country side and live a safe, slow life. they chose this path

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Man, this shit spreads like wildfire on the interwebs.

I don't usually fail people, but geez, re-read what you wrote. Do you think people work in these places for the fun of it? If he's there, he likely has to provide somehow for him/his family. And the kids too, can they move out to the countryside? Buy some property right?

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Of course no one is forcing them to work there, but you have to understand there is a disgusting caste system in India, and it's not like Canada where we have social assistance programs up the yin-yang. If you're born poor over there , chances are you will most likely die poor (unless of course you manage to land yourself on a game show and coincidentally the answers to all the questions match up with these milestone events in your life, but I digress). Not everyone can also just get up and move as that takes money, time, energy, and various other resources that they can invest towards other things in life such as food and water. These people aren't working to make their lives better, they're just working in these conditions because they have no where else to go and it's their only means to attain the absolute bare necessities in life.

not when you have no food to eat and no place to stay. These people are pushed to this point because they have no other better alternatives. If they don't do it chances are they'll end up starving to death instead.

The sad part of this video is things like this happen all over the world and we don't hear about most of it. It's modern day slavery and it makes me sick to my stomach that the people who run this company's don't give a fuck.

Who's we? You? You, and others like you choose to ignore it?

Dutch movie about the same thing, titled "ironeaters"

They don't care because WE don't care. All we really care about is the latest celebrity news, newest fashion, latest version Iphone or some other useless junk. If we really cared we would do something about it, but as always we will feel bad about this and forget about it by the end of the week.

You gotta be kidding me... Do you actually think these people had better options?

We're slaves to the consumer culture. We're all bound to the same sick globalized game. Can they do anything to change it? No. Can we do anything to change it? Possibly. We choose the easy way out 99.9% of the time though.

So when you were 13 I guess you knew everything about life?

If you listened to the video they said the average age of the workers is 13-17. I can guarantee that they have no education what so ever. So riddle me that batman, how the hell are they suppose to know that they can work somewhere else when they are 13, have no education, in a country that doesn't give a fuck about them?

Do you own and apply product? Do you have Nike Products? Did you go and do something about it when it was on the news?

Lets face it, those people are poor because they do not have wealth or the ability to attain wealth. Capital accumulation is the only way for economic growth and to get yourself out of poverty. Even if those people are earning very little, its still something that will enable them to save up for themselves and maybe they can then send their children to school to develop the human capital needed to get out of poverty.

Education and investment are needed for growth that will allow the country to develop and one day become like ours. Those people were trapped before but because they can now work they are in the so called first rung of the ladder to getting themselves and their country out of poverty. They will have to slowly climb the rest of that ladder but at least they are on the way up.

If you actually talk to people in developing countries who work jobs like that they will tell you they are grateful for the opportunity and that people in Canada who are advocating against big companies doing business like that in countries like china are causing them more harm.

I used to think that all the cheap labour in foreign countries was a bad thing but its not as bad as we think. It sucks that its kids and all working and in shitty conditions but if they don't work then they are actually worse off.

sad to see

Oh, I see. People decide that they WANT to live in poverty. Got it.

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You talk as if they make $250,000 a year doing this dangerous labour. Oh wait, its 22 to 32 CENTS an HOUR.