corporate climate:
some people idolize the corporate world as though it is the solution to all our problems.
my guess is such people have never worked in such an environment, b/c so much about corporate life is retarded that it isn't even funny.
anyway, i was watching a show on nike and the $2.00 per $80.00 shoe that goes to the workers to make the shoe. they can't live on the wage.
now, some would say that the wealthy would support the needy through charity. i ask you this - if they won't even support the people who make their million dollar jobs possible, why would they support people they don't know beyond good press to offset some of their oppression (with a thorough economic analysis ala ford who decided the dollars spent to cover deaths related to their defective vehicles were less than the dollars required to fix their defective cars)?
when pressed about wages, the spokeshole for nike looked almost saddened that they couldn't pay these people more and upset the "free market" wages...
first off, the shoes are made in vietnam, there is little free market in vietnam. secondly, paying more to attract and keep good talent and snatch one's soul out of the closet so they can wear it can be a good business decision and is a good moral decision.
how hypocritical is nike for literally claiming they can't pay more due to the free market for labor (a total lie, they could easily pay more than poverty market rates) while, at the same time, rejecting the free market in the country that made them wealthy? they had no problem disrupting the free market for labor in the us and shipping their jobs overseas. they could pay their people a decent wage, but that's not important to nike's brass - the same folks some deluded people think will somehow provide charity for people they don't even know in numbers high enough to do anything significant.
has anyone seen bordertown? all the manufacturing facilities opened up on the south side of the border has created a problem with women being abducted and/or murdered. i heard the number was about 5k missing or dead over the last 15 years in juarez and chihuahua (sp?). that's about 1 woman per day.
good thing we hear the outcry from all the billionaires to stop this problem... oh, that's right, we don't. we have to wait for someone to make a buck off the tragedy to even hear about it.
santa claus is more real than the charity required to care for the less fortunate. after all, the uber rich don't even want to care for the injured veterans that protect them from having their assets taken by force. the middle class doesn't either. the poor can't do anything.
yes, there are a few exceptions - the operative word is "few."
i guess the fallen warriors can't pad the ex presidents' pockets so their well being doesn't count. |
