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Small aside, but if you're looking for a cheap, decent fan, I recommend this one. Bonus: this Lasko fan is made (or should I say "assembled") in the USA: https:
by exhilaration 5y ago
Small aside, but if you're looking for a cheap, decent fan, I recommend this one. Bonus: this Lasko fan is made (or should I say "assembled") in the USA: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Lasko-20-in-Power-Plus-Box-Fan-B20540/300202629 https://www.homedepot.com/p/Lasko-20-in-Power-Plus-Box-Fan-B...
My covid project was building a gym in my unfinished basement, and this is the box fan + furnace filter I use to keep the dust levels down.
- ncmncm 5y agoMany, perhaps most things with a "Made in USA" sticker are done with prison labor, particularly if made in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Alabama. States have contracts with such for-profit prisons requiring they be kept fully "staffed", railroading as many victims as needed not to pay contract penalties. Police departments are generally agreeable about such policies; everyone they arrest makes them look more important. So, to first order, "Made in USA" implies slave labor.
- dr_kiszonka 5y agoAfter reading this page, I think Lasko perhaps is not using "slave labour": https://www.lasko.com/social-responsibility/ https://www.lasko.com/social-responsibility/
- ncmncm 5y agoIt is always hard to find out whether such declarations are wholly composed by the PR department, with no commitment from management. The page cited does not mention prison labor. The California fire crews do make quite heavy use of prison labor, which seems less problematic than corporate use, except for the safety angle.
- dr_kiszonka 5y agoIt does mention it. Just search for "prison labor" :)
- ncmncm 5y agoOK, I see that now, thank you.