Comments on: Customer Stories – Exploiting Chinese Labor

By: Ike

Ike — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:02:52 +0000

I had to laugh at the hypocrisy of people. Its ok to benefit from the product but strongly condemns how it was produced.

By: bufare

bufare — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:15:29 +0000

That was a nice read.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:05:37 +0000

Hi Jon,

While I was getting a foot massage one day in China, I had the opportunity to speak with the masseuse. Even though she only gets 5 holidays a year (no weekends off), she’s quite happy with her job and her current living situation. When I told her that I get weekends off including 4 weeks of vacation a year, she nearly flipped. So you’re correct, exploitation is all in the mind.

By: Jon Kepler

Jon Kepler — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:02:58 +0000

I recently read an article that talked about how Chinese workers don’t consider their work to be exploitation at all. In fact, they consider themselves fortunate to have made the move from the country to the city, and feel that this is their ticket to moving on up. You have to remember that someone else’s standard of living doesn’t necessarily have to match your own.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:04:49 +0000

Hey HIB,

No clue. However I did visit the factories and the conditions seem fine to me though I have no idea how much they actually make.

By: HIB

HIB — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:21:44 +0000

She probably read somewhere that people have been exploited in China by a company and then came to the conclusion that many companies are following the same practices. I wonder how common it is to have people in China exploited for their labor?
-HIB

By: Dee Langdon - BloggerNewbie

Dee Langdon - BloggerNewbie — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:57:15 +0000

Sure, shame on who?

By: foo bar

foo bar — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:44:24 +0000

Perhaps she’s simply fed up that she can’t buy something made in the US? Many of us realise that buying local is better for the planet and our local economies. Think of it like fertilizing the field you live with.

By: Jon Kepler

Jon Kepler — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:21:00 +0000

Uncle B, you sound a little bit like some of Steve’s customers.

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:20:31 +0000

As long as one, small, 5’1″ 95 lbs. lady in China can outproduce by 4 to 1 products one large 6′ 5″ 265 lbs man in America, and be satisfied with a bag of rice for her deeds, the American economy is doomed. An American lady sent her child to China for “Advanced Stem Cell Therapy” and the child regained her sight! The treatment was not available here in the U.S.A. because our doctors are too “primitive and behind the times” This illustrates that we no longer have the intellectual superiority we once had in the world. This fact dooms our economy and our schools to third world levels. With the riches of the world at our finger tips, we have slipped into a stupor of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and alcohol induced bliss – our children value super-computers designed for games, not science, a choice made by corporate leaders such as Microsoft, to protect their precious patents and sell us ‘Windows Pablum’! and adults build McMansions, a testimony to our daughters, of whom, one in four have STD’s? Instead of currently possible “Zero running cost, Zero upkeep” survival oriented practical dwellings, economy builders for certain. We drive metal clad V-8 gas guzzlers by marketplace choice while the rest of the world chooses small, fast, practical diesel and diesel/electric, carbon fiber and space age plastic vehicles that go farther for less oil. Our cars are killing our economy – we send out too much cash each day to pay for oil, and do too little trade to balance the situation. The Fed’s can beat themselves silly with frantic manipulations but until the basic conditions change, we are on a road to self-destruction. We can no longer support huge military costs. The Chinese are not paying cash out the way we are. The final bill for this nonsense is added into the cost of every product we produce and we are overpriced in the marketplace now! God help America, she needs you now!