oh I'm not blaming the companies exclusively here
but does it not seem a bit fucked up that we've set a world up in which poor people are treated like shit while making things we don't need thousands of miles away?

Not saying all the stuff we don't need, but really, do we need as much stuff as we have? Do we need as much 'choice' as we're offered?

There are limited resources on this 'ere Earth and yet we're using a whole load of them to make and deliver christmas cracker toys.

Just makes me sad
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 19:18, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

In the same respect, we're creating 'stuff' that are being export over seas, probably more so on a fiscal level...
... but what we, in the UK, create as an export is 'service'. Taking the technology industry, it's greatest producer is south-east asia, because that is where the raw materials, and as a result, is where the best developers are. Nobody is crying over the banker who works 80 hour weeks for similar percentage of wage-to-output, because he is happy to do this job in the interim to support his lifestyle.

Through this captialism, countries such as China have become charity-possitive where as without it, they would be charity-negative... which is a good indication of a country's standing. If they didn't produce products that us westeners wanted, waste or not, then they would be in dire need of hand-outs.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 19:23, Reply)

Where I believe a 'wrong' is done, is somewhere around the level of the factory owners who live in mansions where as their workers live in pure poverty (but less poverty than their unemployeed).

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 19:24, Reply)

I can't remember where I read this, I believe it was in relation to the BBC, but they're saying that their highest earner won't earn more than 20x their lowest.
I like that.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 19:25, Reply)

where's that? In china?

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 19:34, Reply)

No, I mean they're going to imploy that policy at the BBC

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 19:36, Reply)

nice

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 19:38, Reply)

re. the banker - I think this is a totally different
situation than someone who is working crappy conditions to survive/send money back to their families

re. the other bit: I'm not completely against industrialisation and capitalism, clearly they have produced some great things, but I can't see that our current situation is stable and not ultimately destructive
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 19:33, Reply)