Norwegian Reality Show Sends Fashion Bloggers to Work in Cambodian Sweatshop

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8. A job that doesn't pay a living wage is a job not worth doing.

Wage slavery is a very real thing, even here in the U.S.A.

People work until they physically can't, and then they are replaced by new, desperate hungry people.

Those who can't work often die young.

Our economic system is despicable.

I had some dull repetitive jobs when I was young, working in medical labs and in manufacturing. I once spent an entire summer making thousands of little spring clips used in the latches of airline overhead bins. But I generally enjoyed 40 hour weeks and the pay was much more than starvation wages.

Yet I'm always going to be suspicious of television shows like this, as if they might be our economic masters' way of telling ordinary people, "Hey, things could be worse for you! You could be living in Cambodia..."