The True Cost Page #8

we call it "Law of decent working conditions and fair competition",

the companies responded with one voice,

"No! It would be an impediment to free trade.

There can be no rules. We can not pamper you! "

They want to keep with voluntary codes of conduct.

They have fought, and won,

by laws protecting their belongings and their interests,

but what about the workers?

There are only voluntary codes of conduct.

And what we see in case after case after case,

is that these voluntary codes of conduct

We must recognize, particularly in the fashion sector,

that human capital is part of this miracle formula.

Without human capital, not cheap labor,

female hand cheap labor,

I would not be generating the profits it generates.

That has to be recognized, must be addressed,

and those people need to be rewarded and not exploited.

Where's your piece of the pie?

That is what we must constantly ask.

Are these immoral buyers? Or just not ... Or are they immoral?

The system for working and the system that allows

companies do it is amoral.

The persons concerned are merely products of that system

and they have to take it to its logical conclusion.

What we have to do is change how these businesses operate.

Operating in a system that only measures benefits,

companies have little incentive to do

nothing else to do that this quarter is better than the last.

Regardless of the damage to the road.

As companies in the global fashion industry,

leading brands, and seed and chemical companies,

today grow to a size and unprecedented global power.

This term profit at all costs, is beginning to be opposed

openly to the values we share.

Richard Wolff es un economista,

that after graduating from Harvard, Stanford and Yale,

he was convinced that the real problem

it is within the system itself.

So the United States became a peculiar country.

You could criticize the educational system

to improve schools.

You could criticize the transport system

to work best.

You could crit ...

But you could not fault the economic system.

That had free pass.

You could not criticize ...

And if not critical thing for 50 years,

it rots, it decomposes.

One of the ways that a healthy society works

It is subjected to criticism of its component systems,

to discuss it and hopefully fix it,

or improve it or make it better.

You could not question capitalism.

Capitalism is the reason

whereby the fashion industry is as today.

It is the reason why so little is paid to workers in Bangladesh.

Because if you're operating in a capitalist system,

the most important thing to do is to create benefits

and you need to create more profits than its competitors.

And this is what drives companies

to keep wages low and getting lower.

But companies do not go ... The fashion retailers

They do not go to places like Bangladesh for no other reason except

they can get cheaper labor can work.

No collective rights in Bangladesh,

no trade union rights,

There is a very, very low minimum wage,

no maternity benefits, no pensions,

It is why the fashion industry is in Bangladesh

because you can get the most benefits from these people

they are making clothes for them.

Before you can solve a problem, you have to admit you have it

and before going to fix an economic system

it is working in this way, and producing such stresses

and inequalities and problems in our community,

we have to face the real extent of the problem we have,

with the overall system.

And at least

we have to open a national debate on the subject,

and at most, I think we have to think long and hard

on alternative systems that might work better.

For the environment, the big threat is that capital

You should continue to expand infinitely to survive.

You can not have any limit to its expansion and growth.

The natural world clearly has limits.

There are definite limits on how it can support the world

in terms of production, in terms of trade,

in terms of transport and distribution.

And it is clear that we have already exceeded

Many of these limits, that is why we are seeing so much tension

in the natural world right now.

Most people do not want to live in a system like this.

I think it's a system that makes most people very unhappy,

and I do not think people want to live on a planet that is dying slowly

or be exploiting their neighbors.

I think we need a huge systemic change.

If the system does not change,

It is being left intact

decisions of these companies,

meaning that a small group of executives and shareholders

They will be working on the same system,

subject to the same pattern of rewards and punishments,

that sooner or later it makes impose again,

there or elsewhere,

the same conditions against which they are fighting.

So leave it to improve their conditions,

do against the computer or otherwise do not speak seriously.

Our economic system is consumer capitalism,

and so the government needs to have consumption

at very high levels,

like companies, of course,

and so at some level, most people accept.

I've lost count of the people I spoke to said:

"Well, if we become less materialistic economy would collapse."

Well, they're right in a sense, because our economy

is based on materialism, it is based on such securities.

That's what it needs to survive.

That's part of the fuel it needs.

The problem is that it has a high price.

Black Friday is here we go, please?

Go, go, go buy, buy, buy

Black Friday Hysteria

continues in shopping centers.

In some parts of the country tonight,

It is as if someone announced

we are in danger of running out of things,

and those who need something have to go out and buy now

because it will disappear forever.

Walmart, she made more than 10 million transactions

in the first four hours of hysteria.

A record 15 000 people at Macy's in New York, buyers resist.

Black Friday is the longest day of the year sales.

Certainly in the case of Macy's. We'll have more sales this day

than any other day of the year.

This Christmas shopping spree shows that the country rose!

We are once again ... Yes!

Yes!

We are once again spending money we do not have

things that do not need to give people we do not like.

IN. IT.! IN. IT.! IN. IT.! IN. IT.!

OMG!

They love her

and possibly take care of it better than me.

However, one thing makes me sad.

No matter how much someone wants it,

no one can love a child's parents.

I feel heartbroken.

I do not want my daughter to have to work in a garment factory like me.

I feel bad, but I think I'll be happy one days

when she has a good future.

It will be a good human being and people will say,

although Shima worked in a garment factory

and he stayed in Dhaka, away from her daughter,

He gave him a good education to her daughter

and raised her as a good human being.

If you get a good job in government, or marries a good man,

then people will say and I will be very proud of that.

Yes, I fought,

but I did my best not to let her go through this.

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