tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601170858171153686.post6783367561604144004..comments2023-05-30T09:03:06.061-05:00Comments on The Lazy Editor: China BlueThe Lazy Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16572069377864549246noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601170858171153686.post-36533146841780034242007-11-17T19:50:00.000-06:002007-11-17T19:50:00.000-06:00As you find out about it, teach me more! I like th...As you find out about it, teach me more! I like the idea, but I'm less certain of it being economically sound .. <BR/><BR/>I was at the Gap today, and tried on this super-cute long tweedish coat. It actually FIT me, which is pretty near a miracle for coats .. but it was rather expensive. I could have eaten the cost, but then I thought of the potential of sweatshops .. and I didn't buy it. I didn't want to pay <I>that</I> much.<BR/><BR/>Still, curses! When am I going to find a coat that good again?Joyfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17743613089192468334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601170858171153686.post-18441931839086249522007-11-15T17:57:00.000-06:002007-11-15T17:57:00.000-06:00i want to see this movie. its sounds so provoking....i want to see this movie. its sounds so provoking.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601170858171153686.post-81664585167810570412007-11-14T07:53:00.000-06:002007-11-14T07:53:00.000-06:00My goodness! I know what you mean, friend. It's so...My goodness! I know what you mean, friend. It's so difficult to be convicted about something and know that it's going to be really incredibly difficult for you to change things in your own life without encouraging people to make similar changes in their own. <BR/><BR/>And you're right about "fair trade" clothes - they are incredibly ethnic looking. And while I enjoy ethnic clothes to a certain extent, I'm really more into what might be deemed "trendy" and classic clothing, all of which of course is made in third world countries. What we really need is for our government, and perhaps the United Nations, to place restrictions on what First World countries can import...if we can no longer import sweat-shop made clothing, maybe that would force the sweat-shops to reform their labor codes and in the end make more money because we'd have to pay a fair price for the clothing (i.e. as much as we pay for clothing made in American factories, even though there is still a lot of wage disparagement here, too). It's all so complicated though, it's hard to figure out the best course of action. It really is a human rights issue, but it's really difficult to eradicate subtle human rights issues in other countries when we still have similar problems in some places in the U.S. The only thing I've managed to come up with right now as a consumer is to try to not increase the demand of sweat-shop made clothing...I shop very rarely, and if you shop at second-hand stores or wholesalers or only buying sale items that are marked down, you're not increasing demand by as significant an amount as if you pay $50 at Gap for a freaking t-shirt that someone was paid 50 cents for. Oh man. The Gap. I have huge issues with them. Like, for example, I was in there the other day just browsing around, and you know how they have that whole [Red] campaign? First of all, it's just a stupid campaign designed to make consumers feel like they're "helping" even though they're just being trendy. Anyway, I saw these bracelets that were part of that campaign on sale for $1.00. They were originally $4.00 with I think 50% of the profit made on them going towards ending poverty and I found myself thinking, WHY are they on SALE?! Is it so the people who didn't want to "donate" $2 by buying this STUPID bracelet (when they could have just give $4 and not supported Gap, who arguably contributes to a good bit of the world's poverty) can now pay Gap a dollar to look like they did? I doubt Gap gave much of the newly priced bracelet's profits to research, presumably because there was no longer a profit to be made on it. It just made me angry.<BR/><BR/>I don't know what there is to do. We should have a conference of people who have similar issues and we should all try and figure out what would be best.A Bookish Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03384407873817927240noreply@blogger.com