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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy
Very true.
Our view on things is often skewed in this country. I remember seeing an interview with a Chiness girl of about 17 years old. She was very excited (picture American girl getting a car excited) about getting a factory job making a product for a company like Walmart. If I remember correctly it paid couple hundred bucks a month. She was estatic because the money would help her family so greatly, and she was so happy that they might be able to get a TV now.
There are many people around the world that would literaly kill for a $100 a month job.
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Yep.
The whole "sweatshop" thing is greatly exaggerated and dramatized by the media.
If I had two options:
1. Live in the middle of nowhere in China, making $1 or two a day farming rice for 14 hours a day.
--OR--
2. Live in or near an urban area in China and make $100 a month working in a "sweatshop" 14 hours a day.
.... I'd most CERTAINLY choose the latter, and I doubt that I would complain very much.
Mike