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Re: Can we help?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:55:39 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Mark de Kock wrote:
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In lugnet.dear-lego, John Gerlach wrote:
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And some of us go out of our way to find toys that are NOT produced in China.
Sometimes, that’s dang difficult, but I for one think it’s worth the extra
effort.
JohnG, GMLTC
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Now this may sound naive, but: WHY do you (and so many with you) object to
production in China? I have seen some very good quality coming from over there
(Atlas model trains comes to mind).
I realy don’t know why China would be a worse place than, say, Denmark. If a
move of production towards China would save the Lego Company from going down
completely, I would think all AFOLs would support that?
//\ark “as long as lego quality doesn’t go down to MegaBlocks” de Kock
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because of their established slave labor practices & the ‘first’ world nations
general willingness to look the other way for cheap stuff.
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/sdc/laogai.html
http://www.house.gov/schakowsky/press2000/pr5_11_2000china.html
http://www.americasfuture.net/1996/mar96/3-31-96b.html
& just do a search for “chinese slave labor” or “laogai”
I’m changing the forum to .off-topic.debate
Jeff
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| (...) Good idea. However many consider it polite not to change the location of the post without any warning. Since you posted to ONLY off-topic.debate, people who subscribe to dear-lego by mail, or even by nntp, didn't see your post at all, and (...) (20 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Now this may sound naive, but: WHY do you (and so many with you) object to production in China? I have seen some very good quality coming from over there (Atlas model trains comes to mind). I realy don't know why China would be a worse place (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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