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Donald Ian Rankin

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5. We need to buy more goods from Bangladesh.

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Sun May 12, 2013, 04:09 PM

May 2013

The obvious, natural response to this - to stop buying goods from Bangladesh, and buy them from more prosperous places - is the worst possible one for the Bangladeshis.

Poor working conditions are a result of too many people wanting too few jobs, creating a favourable market for employers to exploit.

If you want to help Bangladeshis, buy goods from the third world - ideally ethically produced ones, but even buying sweatshop goods will do more to help them than not buying from Bangladesh at all.

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