Geminat
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The thought of sweaty little kids making my duds grosses me out. |
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Curious
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because we value the value of the workers' lives more than the bottom line |
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Solange
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Uh, because you would be perpetuating human slave labor??????? |
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HotRod
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You even have to ask such a question? |
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YahooGuru2u
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You don't have to INVEST in them. Just shop at Walmart. Everything comes from overseas where workers are slaves. |
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baserunner316
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because we need to keep jobs HERE in THIS COUNTRY and make " made in america" mean something again! |
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luv
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same reason you wouldn't support a person who prostitutes a child. MORALITY! |
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youwangsta
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b/c by out sourcing your creating a financial slump here in our homeland, sharing too much info, processes etc, harder to track who's being hired and what people are doing with your sometimes personal information. Not to mention the language barrier. |
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macbeatswindows
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Would you want your 6 year old kid slaving 9 hours there? |
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Rogue Squire
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On the one hand, you could argue that you are participating in the mistreatment of children and women.
On the other hand, in a lot of countries what WE call a sweatshop is a half-decent job, and you would not be doing those 'exploited' people any favor by costing them the only means of support they have. |
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treseuropean
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Poor working conditions.
Some poor person is slaving in hot and dangerous conditions to make you a cheap toy/shirt. |
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Ryan S
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thanks for this question...
I find it amusing how many people have answered with disgust over sweat shops....
how many of them buy american made linen?? t-shirts?
laughable.....
yes... traumatic how the children are treated there..... when they could be in the country-side starving of famine....i suppose thats somehow better.
people who want to make a difference should be careful what they buy...So long as there is a market for the good produced people will always find a cheap way to make them....and since the same people who complain about sweatshops are often the people shopping for the lowest priced, imported goods it's them that create the problem..
me, i invest in what is profitable. |
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kr_toronto
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Better question - why SHOULD we invest in companies that are cheap and despicable enough to use CHILD SLAVE LABOUR...
>:( |
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HeidiM
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Because supporting humanity should be more important than supporting a bank account. |
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Ye Olde Caveman
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Me think you should go work sweatshop, then you know first hand why not!
Sweatshop usually not have good ventilation, not have safety practices, make people work LOOOOONNG hours with little pay.
UGH!!!!! |
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Eagles Fly
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I suppose you could if you don't give a crap about the people (that would include children) doing the work/sweating for pennies so other people can stamp their name on the goods and sell of hefty profit.
That way the rich get richer. |
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dhakkansingh007
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Smell? |
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The Answerer
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Well the point of investing is to make as much money as you can. So you want to invest in companies that have a very high "rate of return" on investment. If a company is suddenly revealed to use sweatshops, there may be lawsuits and other negative image campaigns against the company that eventually will decrease the value of the stock and cause your return to be small. You might even lose money. |
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