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American Slavery v Foreign Sweatshops
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American Slavery v Foreign Sweatshops

Slavery in America was used for the production of goods. Slave owners produced at a low cost (food and water).

Sweatshops, such as American GAP factories in Bangladesh, pay children and adults small wages (30 cents/hour) to work long hours and produce goods (workers buy their own food and water).

Is the modern sweatshop a more "ethical" version of slavery?



Is the modern sweatshop a more "ethical" version of slavery?
You may choose only one
Do you approve of GAP sweatshops in Bangladesh?
You may choose only one


Votes accepted from 11/03/17 02:35 PM until the end of time
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Edited by XUL (11/03/17 03:41 PM)

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Re: American Slavery v Foreign Sweatshops [Re: XUL]
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No they're both fucked up. More fucked is the idea that many on both ends consider themselves fortunate to have work and food and shelter (dreary as all might be.)


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Re: American Slavery v Foreign Sweatshops [Re: XUL]
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Not more ethical. Equally fucked up as in the past. Clothing prices are artificially low in this period of history.


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Re: American Slavery v Foreign Sweatshops [Re: CookieCrumbs]
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:highfive:


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Re: American Slavery v Foreign Sweatshops [Re: CookieCrumbs] * 1
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Thank God for the regulations that stop this sort of thing in America!

It's better to enslave other countries with less regulations.

They are inferior and easy to take advantage of.

And it's legal!


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Edited by XUL (11/03/17 04:29 PM)

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Re: American Slavery v Foreign Sweatshops [Re: XUL]
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Third world labor is much cheaper than buying slaves.

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Re: American Slavery v Foreign Sweatshops [Re: XUL]
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XUL said:
Thank God for the regulations that stop this sort of thing in America!


There are definitely sweatshops in America.  How do you think that Apple puts all of that shiny into your phone?  With highly paid software engineers working reasonable hours?  :lol:

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Re: American Slavery v Foreign Sweatshops [Re: XUL] * 1
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I would say that unless they are imprisoned by the employer, it is not in fact slavery and is definitely more ethical than slavery. Though still not especially ethical.

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Re: American Slavery v Foreign Sweatshops [Re: qman]
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qman said:
Third world labor is much cheaper than buying slaves.


Because the taka is so weak? :deal:

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Re: American Slavery v Foreign Sweatshops [Re: chibiabos] * 1
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Outright slavery might be better

The US should have barred business' like GAP when our economy was stronger, I blame Republicans and their obsession with deregulation when financially convenient to the status quo

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Re: American Slavery v Foreign Sweatshops [Re: Repertoire89]
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Repertoire89 said:
Outright slavery might be better




Remember how democrats were originally slave owners and supporters?

And now they hike up the regulations, which brings about these slavery sweat shops.

What a coincidence!


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Re: American Slavery v Foreign Sweatshops [Re: XUL]
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:lol:

there is an easy legislative fix for the problem you are describing.

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Re: American Slavery v Foreign Sweatshops [Re: ballsalsa]
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Pretty much all our issues are an easy fix

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Re: American Slavery v Foreign Sweatshops [Re: ballsalsa]
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ballsalsa said:
:lol:

there is an easy legislative fix for the problem you are describing.


Why would you want to fix it?

It's been going on for years. It's a common trend now.

Taboo is trying to stop it.

But what is your idea?


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Re: American Slavery v Foreign Sweatshops [Re: XUL]
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simply require that goods sold in the U.S. be manufactured according to U.S. labor laws regardless of where they are produced in the world.  Be like Japan, and require on-site U.S. inspectors to observe and report on whether the law is being fulfilled.  Done deal.  Anyone is free to produce whatever they want, wherever they want, but if they don't want to conform to U.S. labor laws, they'll have to find other customers.  That plan probably only has a 20 year shelf life at this point though.

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Re: American Slavery v Foreign Sweatshops [Re: ballsalsa]
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Its really pretty obvious, the economy might take a hit (like ending slavery) but those businesses would be tanked and an enormous wrong would be righted.

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Re: American Slavery v Foreign Sweatshops [Re: ballsalsa]
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ballsalsa said:
simply require that goods sold in the U.S. be manufactured according to U.S. labor laws regardless of where they are produced in the world.  Be like Japan, and require on-site U.S. inspectors to observe and report on whether the law is being fulfilled.  Done deal.  Anyone is free to produce whatever they want, wherever they want, but if they don't want to conform to U.S. labor laws, they'll have to find other customers.  That plan probably only has a 20 year shelf life at this point though.


Yes, that does sound great. Does this include minimum wage?

Although, I doubt anything like this will ever become policy.

If you can't beat em, join em.

Either way America wins, right? We get our clothes and we don't have to witness modern day slavery. Win win!


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Re: American Slavery v Foreign Sweatshops [Re: XUL]
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XUL said:
Yes, that does sound great. Does this include minimum wage?


naturally.

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Although, I doubt anything like this will ever become policy.


me too, even though it is well within the power of congress to enact such a law

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If you can't beat em, join em.


is that how you really feel?

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Either way America wins, right? We get our clothes and we don't have to witness modern day slavery. Win win!


Wrong.  It isn't a win-win for U.S. labor, which also happens to make up the bulk of the U.S. consumer.  It doesn't matter how cheap shit is if you don't have any money.

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Re: American Slavery v Foreign Sweatshops [Re: XUL]
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Not losing sleep over it, but I avoid exploitative companies and would vote for regulation to curb slavery

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Re: American Slavery v Foreign Sweatshops [Re: ballsalsa]
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Well with the way our economy is set up if we told businesses they couldn't offshore their work for cheaper labor they'd take their business over to those cheaper countries and then offshore only very specific work to us.


Or hike their prices up to insane levels. They already sell their goods for more than 1000% of the production value, nothing would stop them from producing them at American wage levels and then still marking up the sale price +100% or more. We have laws against that but it's not stopping them.


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