Post Comment - Blue's News

Evening Mobilization

[Feb 08, 2012, 8:08 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Post Comment
Enter the details of the comment you'd like to post in the boxes below and click the button at the bottom of the form.

Re: Evening Mobilization

Feb 9, 2012, 01:18

Cutter

^Drag0n^ wrote on Feb 9, 2012, 00:41:
Tip: ALL of your cheap goods come from low paid, and, likely, exploited labor. So what is better? Not buying it and denying these people a job to support their families?

This is veiled politics, plain simple...an easy way to throw criticism at China in a way that makes you look like an asshole if you protest against it.^D^

By not buying things from places that you actually don't need. Particularly every year or every other year. There are a ton of little things everyone can do that actually do make a difference. Half-assedly protesting out front of an Apple store with your Apple device sipping your Starbucks frappucino isn't one of them.

No Apple isn't the only company doing this but they want to be in the spotlight so they get the bullseye...for now. And if you can get them to cave, then other companies start falling like dominoes. And from those small steps you go from tht to bringing the work back here where it belongs. Not buying from overseas isn't our problem if it causes them unemployement of not, we have our shit to deal with here, of which we are currently failing miserably.




"Are you crazy? Is that your problem?" - Jack Burton

Subject

Comment [quote="Cutter"Feb 9, 2012, 01:18][quote="^Drag0n^"Feb 9, 2012, 00:41]Tip: ALL of your cheap goods come from low paid, and, likely, exploited labor. So what is better? Not buying it and denying these people a job to support their families? This is veiled politics, plain simple...an easy way to throw criticism at China in a way that makes you look like an asshole if you protest against it.^D^ [/quote] By not buying things from places that you actually don't need. Particularly every year or every other year. There are a ton of little things everyone can do that actually do make a difference. Half-assedly protesting out front of an Apple store with your Apple device sipping your Starbucks frappucino isn't one of them. No Apple isn't the only company doing this but they want to be in the spotlight so they get the bullseye...for now. And if you can get them to cave, then other companies start falling like dominoes. And from those small steps you go from tht to bringing the work back here where it belongs. Not buying from overseas isn't our problem if it causes them unemployement of not, we have our shit to deal with here, of which we are currently failing miserably. [/quote]

;) :( :o %) :) :| ;P X| :D More

If you have a signature set up, it will be automatically appended to your comment.
If you don't already have a Blue's News user account, you can sign up here.
Forgotten your password? Click here.

Email me when this topic is updated.

Special Codes

b[bold text]b
i[italic text]i
u[underline text]u
-[~~strikethrough text~~]-
c[code text]c
+[bullet point]+
q[quote text (indented)]q
[quote="Author"]quote text (indented)[/quote]
[url=Link]text[/url]
r{red text}r
g{green text}g
b{blue text}b
m{maroon text}m
s{secret text (shows in the background colour)}s

Forum Rules

Disagree all you want but attacks of a personal nature will not be tolerated.
Ethnic slurs and homophobic language will not be tolerated.
Do not post spam, links to warez sites, or instructions on how to obtain pirated software.
Abusing the forums in any manner that could be construed as 'griefing' will not be tolerated.