On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:57:59 +0100, "JohnT"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>"Jim Ley" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:19:03 +0100, "JohnT"
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>Unfortunately, it is almost certainly the case that a shirt which costs so
>>>little has been made in a sweatshop in Bangladesh or some other equally
>>>impoverished Country
>>
>> Why is that unfortunate? Would you rather the money goes into the
>> pocket of a relatively very, very rich Italian?
>
>
>I would rather hope that the person making the garment were paid a
>reasonable wage.

But the wage is "reasonable" for the people doing it - if it wasn't
they wouldn't be doing it. Certainly it is not a good wage,
particularly compared to what someone in a rich country would demand
to do the same work, but it's certainly better that there is a wage
available in the impoverished country, if they didn't have jobs,
there'd be little chance of them becoming un-impoverished.

As David asks - what's the alternative? Currently you can buy clothes
made by people in poor countries being paid low wages, or you can buy
clothes from rich countries getting paid low wages for the country
they're in, but still much, much more than the poor country wages, and
with lots of social care and other jobs available to them. Or I guess
you could make your own.

Which do you do?

Jim.