Bratz dolls...sad

[Mr. Rude]

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2006/12/22/bratz-dolls.html

So, apparently there is a "sweat shop" just for these hunks of plastic...

Now please tell me, how sad this is.

People slaving away like dogs just so that some kid can get a toy. :(

[Barefootgirl]

If you neither bought nor wore anything that was manufactured in a sweatshop, you'd be in rags and living in a teachest. The endless demand for ever-cheaper manufactured goods has put our own manufacturing industry on the scrapheap and created a global underclass who slave away for literally pennies making junk for rapacious consumers.

Rant over. For me, this is yet another reason not to buy those fugly dolls.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Yet another reason to not buy those dumb things.

Besides the fact they basically look like preteen trollops. I call them "Slutz". The "babyz" are "slutz in training"

[XCashier]

If you neither bought nor wore anything that was manufactured in a sweatshop, you'd be in rags and living in a teachest. The endless demand for ever-cheaper manufactured goods has put our own manufacturing industry on the scrapheap and created a global underclass who slave away for literally pennies making junk for rapacious consumers.
Unfortunately, that is true. Unless you want to go totally pioneer and grow your own food and textiles, or you are rich enough to buy things from Fair Trade companies, you're stuck buying items that are made by slave labor or sweatshops. It's happening all over the world. :(

[kibbles]

I like the Bratz dolls myself :D

[Cosmic Cat]

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2006/12/22/bratz-dolls.html

So, apparently there is a "sweat shop" just for these hunks of plastic...

Now please tell me, how sad this is.

People slaving away like dogs just so that some kid can get a toy. :(

Are you wearing anything made in a third world country? I try to buy things made in places like America and France as much as possible, but most things are made with third world slave labor.

[blas]

That's the reason I no longer buy clothes from Hollister. Not only are their clothes super over priced and just an Abercrombie wannabe store, but you can't count on any of their clothes (except for their heavy hoodies and heavy pants) to last more than a few months.

My new rule of thumb is if I can't pronounce the country's name where the clothing was made, and if I can't pinpoint it on a map in my head, I won't buy it.

[Sofar]

Almost everything I buy is used, some of which is old enough to have been manufactured in the U.S. I don't know where that puts me morally.

[XCashier]

Almost everything I buy is used, some of which is old enough to have been manufactured in the U.S. I don't know where that puts me morally.
It means you support recycling, which is good! :)

[Cia]

I support garage sales - how else can you get 3 bags of clothes for $20?