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Re: MADE IN CHINA?!?!!?!?! that's IT Lego Re: Lego changes CEO...
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Fri, 22 Oct 2004 05:26:32 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Ka-On Lee wrote:
> 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.
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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.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiight, 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 they still apply.
Peace,
--==Richard==--
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