What Life Is Like For The Bangladeshis Who Make Your Clothes

[Locrian]

1. aaarggggh!

>>The low prices we pay for these clothes are tied directly to the low wages and working conditions of the Bangladeshis who make them.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/bangladesh-garment-workers-2013-5?op=1#ixzz2T6ClXcib

MUTHERF##ERS!!! The wages are primarily driven by the god damn PROFIT that the companies extract. Wages set the PROFIT, the market sets the price.

Every time I heard this meme: "*we*cause the conditions because of the low prices the consumer pays" it drives me nuts.

Would you pay another buck or whatever on a piece of clothing if you knew it would go to the workers? Of course. So the shirt costs 10.95 vs 9.95. Because you only pay the buck but it's multiplied by the 1,000,000 of shirts (or whatever). But to a company - that extra buck is a million dollars of PROFIT.

Clothing material and quality is getting worse and worse. That too is driven by more and more desire for companies to extract profit - NOT the desire of the consumer.


(disclaimer for the inevitable post saying material / consumerism / desire for low quality cheap crap / etc play a part - of course they freakin do. But don't tell me it's the primary or sole driver)