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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lane3 who wrote (3881)1/29/2001 9:14:08 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Whenever I hear Western liberals embark on furious rants about how the wages of a Nike worker in Vietnam compare to the wages of a Nike worker in the US, I have to remind them that this is not really very meaningful. The question is how the wages of a Nike worker in Vietnam compare to the wages of an average Vietnamese worker in a Vietnamese-owned manufacturing operation.

My guess is that the Nike workers probably earn more.

Trying to force Nike to pay the same wages to their Vietnamese workers that they do to workers in Korea or Malaysia is counterproductive, because if Nike had to pay those wages anyway they would have no reason to manufacture in Vietnam, and the Vietnamese would have nothing. To the people working in those factories, a low-paying job is a whole lot better than no job at all.
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