 | | Re: MADE IN CHINA?!?!!?!?! that's IT Lego Re: Lego changes CEO... —Ka-On Lee
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| | | (...) 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. (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: MADE IN CHINA?!?!!?!?! that's IT Lego Re: Lego changes CEO... —Richard Noeckel
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| | | | | (...) 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)
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| | | | | | | Re: MADE IN CHINA?!?!!?!?! that's IT Lego Re: Lego changes CEO... —David Laswell
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| | | | | | (...) No, but they've learned a lot over recent years. They've set up huge manufucturing districts, and the way it usually works is young adults will work there for a few years, earn enough money in that time to go buy a small farm, start up a (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: MADE IN CHINA?!?!!?!?! that's IT Lego Re: Lego changes CEO... —Patrick S. O'Donnell
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| | | | | (...) 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)
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| | | | | Re: MADE IN CHINA?!?!!?!?! that's IT Lego Re: Lego changes CEO... —Jeff Szklennik
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| | | | (...) 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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| | | | | | Re: MADE IN CHINA?!?!!?!?! that's IT Lego Re: Lego changes CEO... —Jeff Szklennik
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| | | | In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jeff Szklennik wrote: woah! why didn't the text 'wrap' like in the editing box? can someone fix my post (b4 this one)? Sorry! Jeff (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: MADE IN CHINA?!?!!?!?! that's IT Lego Re: Lego changes CEO... —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Not that I am aware of, as fixing spacing or linewrapping is a kind of editing and LUGNET does not support editing. You can repost it and request a cancel of the original post if you like, but no one can change it, not even you, as far as I (...) (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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