Re:Don’t tell me about your trip to Southeast Asia
by jacknews on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @08:54AM
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"To boast of cutting corners in countries where human beings depend on literal dollars, table scraps of your hourly income, to feed their families for entire weeks holds no repute for me."
The thing is that capitalism does indeed thrive on cutting corners in these kinds of situations, albeit often indirectly, by selecting the most "cost effective" supplier, building the factory in low-tax, or low-labor-protection states, and so on.
It's no different when Nike, or even the more enlightened conglomerates, do it than when an individual privileged white male imperialist tourist does it. It's just more personal, rather than systematic, perhaps.
But I suspect the systematic pressure is much more damaging than disrespectful tourists. And since when have tourists been known to be respectful anyway, in SEA or anywhere.
The thing is that capitalism does indeed thrive on cutting corners in these kinds of situations, albeit often indirectly, by selecting the most "cost effective" supplier, building the factory in low-tax, or low-labor-protection states, and so on.
It's no different when Nike, or even the more enlightened conglomerates, do it than when an individual privileged white male imperialist tourist does it. It's just more personal, rather than systematic, perhaps.
But I suspect the systematic pressure is much more damaging than disrespectful tourists. And since when have tourists been known to be respectful anyway, in SEA or anywhere.