donco6
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Wed Jul-07-10 04:32 PM
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| 21. This is what a "Flat World" looks like. |
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I had friends who just gushed over that fucking book. I never could convince them that maybe a round world would be better for everyone.
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| -DISGUSTING!!! |
SocialistLez |
Jul-07-10 03:25 PM |
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FIGHTING for 35 cents an hour. |
walldude |
Jul-07-10 03:28 PM |
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I literally jumped out of my chair...this is FUCKING CRIMINAL! FUCK YOU WAL-MART! n/t |
Subdivisions |
Jul-07-10 03:32 PM |
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Jumping in to post this link: |
Maraya1969 |
Jul-07-10 03:47 PM |
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Fighting so hard for less than we pay for one postage stamp. They're being forceed to |
Subdivisions |
Jul-07-10 04:20 PM |
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6 cents an hour in china |
Liberal_in_LA |
Jul-07-10 08:08 PM |
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Bangla Desh is not India |
Canuckistanian |
Jul-07-10 03:29 PM |
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Bangladesh is a separate country...not part of India |
rfranklin |
Jul-07-10 03:29 PM |
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Thanks for pointing that out. |
SocialistLez |
Jul-07-10 03:37 PM |
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disgusting is too mild a word--criminal, obscene, horrifc, hateful. . . |
niyad |
Jul-07-10 03:29 PM |
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It's on my Netflix queue. I don't want to watch it but I know I should. |
SocialistLez |
Jul-07-10 03:46 PM |
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yes, you should most definitely watch it. and, unless wal-mart is the ONLY reasonably close |
niyad |
Jul-07-10 04:28 PM |
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Kroger is another place I frequent but I know they are not much better. |
SocialistLez |
Jul-07-10 07:49 PM |
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krogers is, at least, union. and, at least at the ones here, there is a great deal of local produce |
niyad |
Jul-07-10 09:11 PM |
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Are the factories owned by Wal-Mart? |
bighart |
Jul-07-10 03:32 PM |
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Wal-Mart doesn't own the factories, but is famous (notarious) |
hedgehog |
Jul-07-10 03:44 PM |
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::shakes head:: double the wage for workers and it adds a fucking penny to the cost? |
SocialistLez |
Jul-07-10 03:47 PM |
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You know, I was thinking about this yesterday... |
walldude |
Jul-07-10 03:56 PM |
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Hey - I'm assuming that the amount of the profit stays the same - |
hedgehog |
Jul-07-10 04:48 PM |
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Where're all the folks telling us "but people can live on $0.11 an hour in Bangladesh... |
readmoreoften |
Jul-07-10 03:32 PM |
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May the workers |
femrap |
Jul-07-10 03:46 PM |
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When will folks get the message |
Lifelong Protester |
Jul-07-10 03:48 PM |
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Well if we bring those business back to this country |
Bitwit1234 |
Jul-07-10 03:55 PM |
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Wal-Mart doesn't have to own the factory in order to get blame |
SocialistLez |
Jul-07-10 04:00 PM |
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I invite you to watch "the high cost of low price", and, also, to remind you that wal-mart IS an |
niyad |
Jul-07-10 04:53 PM |
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There was a brief time when some retailers (Lands' End was one) |
hedgehog |
Jul-07-10 04:56 PM |
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if I HAD money to put in a 401k, you better believe it would be one that is socially responsible. |
niyad |
Jul-07-10 05:13 PM |
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I hope you didn't think the low wages paid were |
onethatcares |
Jul-07-10 04:09 PM |
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This is what a "Flat World" looks like. |
donco6 |
Jul-07-10 04:32 PM |
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I had an instructor that gushed over that book. |
SocialistLez |
Jul-07-10 04:34 PM |
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thanks for the informative topic, SL. n/t |
Mimosa |
Jul-07-10 04:42 PM |
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The difference between 10 cents and 35 cents an hour might well be the |
hedgehog |
Jul-07-10 04:50 PM |
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or being a human trafficking victim |
niyad |
Jul-07-10 04:54 PM |
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But what do the Walmart executives care? nt |
Cal33 |
Jul-07-10 05:55 PM |
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They get to put that sunshiny Price Buster sign on $8 tshirts. |
donco6 |
Jul-07-10 07:55 PM |
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God I hate that company. |
donheld |
Jul-07-10 09:43 PM |
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