4 ms·
>Yes, because companies shouldn't have to work their employees to the bone to extract value from them. A long time ago, we decided that it's cruel, and created
by tedks 13y ago
>Yes, because companies shouldn't have to work their employees to the bone to extract value from them. A long time ago, we decided that it's cruel, and created labor laws. Where have you been?
Who is 'we'? You're wearing clothes and using a computer and probably exclusively using products that were made in nation-states that have virtually no labor laws. Where were you when globalization happened?
Regardless of moralizing in Western countries, you have decided it is not cruel to work employees to the bone and discard them when they break. You decided that when you bought the shirt you're wearing and the computer you're using.
Whether or not the status quo is right is one question; but you are wrong about what it is.
- eru 13y agoThey have lots of crazy labour laws in poor places. What makes you think they haven't?
- normloman 13y agoMy comment was about the west. It's tragic that such poor working conditions exist in developing nations. But that should not excuse western companies when they over work their employees, as the original commenter implied.
- tedks 13y agoWhy not? Are people in the west somehow worth more than people in "developing nations"? (Besides their dollar value, obviously.) If you're willing to condemn a Honduran to sweatshops, but not an American, that says something about you in more than one way.