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Subject:	Re: MADE IN CHINA?!?!!?!?! that's IT Lego Re: Lego changes CEO...
Newsgroups:	lugnet.lego, lugnet.general
Followup-To:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Fri, 22 Oct 2004 05:09:14 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Jeff Szklennik wrote: > Lego, you darn well better absolutely > NOT use slave labor & conditions!!!! (although that's probably what they're > counting on to cut costs by going to china. I don't wanna hear about poor > abused children being forced into making one of the best toys invented FOR > children. way to go Lego, you really tick me off. That is some rather ignorant ranting. Why would you expect those single kids, spoiled by two parents and four grand parents, would be forced to work? And what is this "slave labor"? Some cold war garbage? Yes you really tick me off too.

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		Re: MADE IN CHINA?!?!!?!?! that's IT Lego Re: Lego changes CEO...
(...) Riii...iiight, and the majority of China's factory labor force is upper-middle class, university educated!?! Bad factory environments exist in much of the Global South, and China in no exception! Some generalizations are valid, simply because (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: MADE IN CHINA?!?!!?!?! that's IT Lego Re: Lego changes CEO...
(...) Just to think about how we're (USA) going to support the baby boom generation in retirement and that there are four times as many humans in China with little in the way of future generations to support those. Of course their family structure (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: MADE IN CHINA?!?!!?!?! that's IT Lego Re: Lego changes CEO...
(...) I apologize, Ka-On Lee, for not making my point clearer. I had no intention of speaking negatively of children. I was lamenting the tendency of large corporations to abuse what they see as less developed economies by using the most vulnerable (...) (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		MADE IN CHINA?!?!!?!?! that's IT Lego Re: Lego changes CEO...
In lugnet.lego, Arne Lykke Nielsen wrote: Snip (...) Snip (...) well, i weathered the color change, & lego ultra-juniorization/B.U.R.P etc. garbage, but this might break it for me. Lego, you darn well better absolutely NOT use slave labor & (...) (20 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)

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