Unfair working condition.

[Alkaz]

Firstly I did read your post and I didn't say you said close the factories and I have literally never spoken to you on or outside of the forum so how would I know that comment 'isn't you'?

My calculations were purely to try and give some perspective. I myself work my fingers to the bone (not literally :rolleyes just the other day I worked 36 hours over a 48 hour period. The work I am in is quite obviously not the same as their work but if someone came in and said I can no longer do X work or I can only work X amount of hours a day then I would quite literally be screwed and I myself would not be able to afford to simply survive. I'm not saying everyone is going around buying £80 tshirts whilst on minimum wage, as I just said it was purely to give perspective on the 9p hourly wage compared to the £1.40 tshirt being sold from the machine.

I also do have a basic understanding of economics, like I imagine most of the country do, we can't all be economics genius'. I never had an interest in that at school, hence my artsy fartsy degree.

[-:Undertaker:-]

Any boycotting or raising of wages in the third world (other than by natural market forces) actually keeps the people there in poverty for longer for the simple reason that the more regulations or costs added to production, the more likely companies are to move away or at least not invest as much into that said country. Post-colonial India and post-Mao China are the best example of this, India implemented a largely socialist constitution with workers rights, regulations etc which was said to protect workers and post-Mao China dropped all of this under Deng Xioping: as a result India has grown very slowly and China very fast, and the Chinese workers and nation in general have ended up far wealthier and better off than those granted those 'rights' by law in India.

Happy to say however that India has learnt and since the 1990s has been repealing regulations/taxes/'rights' which has led to an increase in growth. However, it remains an overly bureacratic and many of the 'rights' won't be removed as it is a democracy where as China doesn't have that problem to contend with.