Cheap labour

[Bernardo]

Industrial smoke and minimum wage, sitting there with a cigarette, a grin, some dumb kid who wants to be like him and about ten years to live.
Liquor shops and franchise churches, open sewers poison grey.
Dismantled sofas abandoned in their parks, under the swings lies broken glass.
An assortment of litter so grand in variety it almost resembles post modern art.
A whole ten neighbourhoods in one block, what do they get by with?
Unable to afford a life or even space to live.
Industrial smoke and minimum wage, keep your condiminium and northeastern maid.
Do i lack tolerance? And sophisticated understanding too?
Should you spend that money on luxury create a better you?
Buy more from those labels, strictly before the poor are able.
Money makes us different, beautiful and deserving!
Money gives us lives we can then savour.
allbeit off the backs of peoples cheap labour.

[BattyOldMaid]

The problem with cheap labour is that people tend not to see the bigger picture. We have people buying £1 clothes from tesco to make their money go further, yet don't think how on earth can a clothes be created, sewn and despatched while tesco reels in massive amount of profits time after time.

If we don't buy, then those slaves don't have work nor money to live on.

Buy fair trade, buy from the source instead. Rather than purchasing cheap wares to make money last, how about buying good quality items, at a good price, the materials will last longer thus saving money long term, in short forget fast fashion.

Another thing I have discovered is that fast fashion uses chemical material, it cannot be recycled, just discarded. Thus filling up land fill sites even more. Again, good quality clothes - cotton, linen, silk and such will always be recycled and reused.

[ou818]

I don't mean to dishearten you, but fairtrade is almost as bad as buying slave created produce, not to mention the ecological damage done. A much better solution would be to buy locally grown produce, or growing your own, and to buy clothing from thrift stores.

Edit: WOAH.

If we don't buy, then those slaves don't have work nor money to live on.

If you do buy, you are actively supporting slavery, and the horrifying conditions of globalisation.