working for 19cent week right/wrong?

Ogge · 2004-04-23, 10:52 AM

In Indonesia you get payed 19cents/week to work at a Nike factory, do you think its right or wrong?

1: they get payed, even if its just 19cents its still 19cents.
2: they get a place to sleep and food, the food may not ge good but its still food.
3: they dont know about the world outside so they think its a good work.
4: We get things cheaper thanks to them.

so what do you think? as you see above i think its a great thing that they got a job and that they have a place to sleep and eat instead of starving to death on the streets.

Hamma · 2004-04-23, 10:54 AM

I think it sucks because we lose jobs here in the USA.

Electrofreak · 2004-04-23, 11:01 AM

Well, it depends on how much 19 cents US is worth in their money. Its not a lot to us, but remember, our money is worth more or less in other countries. Since I'm assuming that it is still drastically less than what we make, I'm going to say that it is definately wrong.

Its really cheap and pathetic of Nike and so many other companies to move their manufacturing to poor countries, and pay the people there practically nothing to work. I mean in a way, its a good thing. It provides the people of that country with a means to make money, otherwise a lot more of them would be unemployed. On the flip side, it takes jobs from Americans as Hamma said. I think that Nike should be paying these people as much as or at least ALMOST as much as what they would pay a US citizen here (basically, give the poor saps at LEAST minimum wage.)

Another thing I find ridiculous, they charge these people 19 cents a week to make shoes which they then sell for like a hundred dollars. That is seriously messed up.

SDM · 2004-04-23, 11:03 AM

Originally Posted by Ogge

In Indonesia you get payed 19cents/week to work at a Nike factory, do you think its right or wrong?

1: they get payed, even if its just 19cents its still 19cents.
2: they get a place to sleep and food, the food may not ge good but its still food.
3: they dont know about the world outside so they think its a good work.
4: We get things cheaper thanks to them.

so what do you think? as you see above i think its a great thing that they got a job and that they have a place to sleep and eat instead of starving to death on the streets.

You really need take your Communist ass to the pol. debate forum.

Ogge · 2004-04-23, 11:05 AM

[QUOTE=Electrofreak]Well, it depends on how much 19 cents US is worth in their money.QUOTE]

well there pay check is worth 19cent [US]

Electrofreak · 2004-04-23, 11:11 AM

wow, didn't bother to try to understand what I said did you? How much is 19 cents worth in their money? Basically I'm guessing you can buy a lot more with 19 cents over there than you can over here. That is my point. However, I'm assuming that it is comparitively much less than what a US worker would earn.

Ogge · 2004-04-23, 11:13 AM

no...what i ment was that you basicly get a paycheck worth of thingys you can get in USA for 19cent

Everay · 2004-04-23, 11:15 AM

america needs more money coming into it, and if these bastards export jobs that would go for min wage here, yea they save money, but it still keeps money from going to american citizens, not to forget america has alot of unemployed people, more jobs state side the better.

Neon Apocalypse · 2004-04-23, 11:17 AM

people living like that have a very very slim chance of getting to the US

it is sad that they are underpaid, but the people that hire them are underpaid as well

they all need money and there isnt much money in indonesia

the advantages of working there are that they get food, they can live, and they will always be employed, its a sucky life that they cant get any better like in the US, but its alot better than it could be in those parts

Everay · 2004-04-23, 11:19 AM

yea, i know, but if america gets no money to its citizens, and our standards of living decrease, eventualy america will be a 3rd world country, hell it already is in some parts, i dont know the statistics but i do know that in select parts of this country people live below the poverty line. which if im not mistaken is taking in less than 9k a year. living on that little is hard. hard to do in america that is, not in indoneasia.

SDM · 2004-04-23, 11:24 AM

http://www.neosith.com/OggeLog.txt

Ogge · 2004-04-23, 11:26 AM

SDM dont go

silly

SDM · 2004-04-23, 11:30 AM

Originally Posted by Ogge

SDM dont go off topic

That is very much ON topic, douche.

Ogge · 2004-04-23, 11:32 AM

i asked what you people was thinking about it, i dont need to find out what i think about it

You seem to have a problem whit me, send me a PM and we can talk about it

Everay · 2004-04-23, 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by SDM

http://www.neosith.com/OggeLog.txt

i was drinking root beer as i read that, i almost spit it out.