How's that taxation and socialism werkin' out fer ya?

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Originally Posted by Tribesman

Bad example, how many decades have Nike been getting bad PR for over that issue?
How many times have they been exposed and said they will change their ways and then got caught doing the same again?

OK maybe it wasn't a bad example, as clearly you was trying to make my point for me .

Well it's clearly a continuing concern for consumers, then. Do YOU buy Nikes, or do you not buy them because of this? Or are you merely waiting for it to be illegal for them to make them with child labor, and until then who cares?

I remember reading about it, and hearing that they said they'd do something about it. Most all my news comes from when I listen to NPR every morning, BTW.

Having travelled quite a lot in Asia (spent the better part of a year backpacking around central and SE Asia a long time ago), I'd suggest that kids not employed making sneakers, etc, would likely be doing something worse, or starving.

Before suggesting radical changes, I'd ned to see a cost-benefit analysis telling us what might become of these newly unemployed workers. Better to work 15 hour shifts in a factory than be forced into prostitution, for example.