For the Love of Money

I have always been aware of the fact that shoe companies manufactured their products overseas, inparticular Nike. I had heard of them doing this years ago, but I had no idea that the wages they paid these women were so low. According to Enloe, hourly wages in China range from $0.10-$0.14, Indonesia from $0.16-$0.20, Thailand from $0.65-$0.74 and South Korea $2.02-$2.27. If this is not exploitation, I don’t know what is. These women have nowhere else to go for money and these companies know that. Nike and other companies are spending no money to get their products made and they charge high prices to the American consumer. Any company that can make a $298 million dollar profit knows what they are doing. However, when does money stop being the number one concern. All they care about is making a profit and they are willing to go through any means to make it. If the real concern was making a good product, they would manufacture their products here in the U.S. which could provide jobs for people here and help stimulate the economy. In fact if all U.S. companies manufactured their products in the U.S., we would not have the economic problems that we have today. There would be so many more jobs for people in the U.S. These companies try to make it seem like they are providing these people in other countries an opportunity to work and make money. They make it seem as though they are doing a service to them by providing them with work. We all know that’s B.S. They are doing it for their own selfish reasons to make a profit. If they were really concerned with giving them an opportunity to work, they would pay them a real hourly wage that they could actually live off. They would never pay them wages that they would pay workers in the U.S. Unfortunately, money makes people do the most immoral of things.