Am I Crazy?

Okey lets get things out in the open.

Ive been watching some movies of late and getting to know from some angels on how the world works.What i found is a disgrace to us all and im just as guilty as anybody els.

We look at our society, lets take a quick e.g.

Christmas the annual festival of the Christian church is something almost all of us celebrate it here in Iceland.We meet up and share this holiday with our loved ones.The main thing this holiday is about is the birth of Jesus.But we made this holiday into the biggest consumer holiday in the history of mankind.

So infact its not about Jesus anymore for a lot of people its about those beautiful toys and clothes.Not that i care about the name Jesus since i do not belive in any religion,but thats besides the point.

The point is the things we buy for christmas to give our friends and loved ones.There has been numerous documentarys about where these things come from and how they remain so cheap.

When you look at the toys or clothes you get you will almost always find the label made in China or somewhere in south east asia.We have all at one point heard a joke or a funny story about something that is made in asia.The grewsome fact behinde these factories is beyond belief.

 

I watched a movie that allowed the makers to enter one of these factories in China.Well the toy company said they would select the one they would be allowed to enter.They where not allowed to interview workers  in the factory.Even tho faceing heavy penalties some of the workers step´d up and gave there story to the world.

In short these people live in the factory and only in there.They are free to leave but life outside the factory is impossible.They make around 500 yuan average, they can make up to 800 yuan at best with around 140 hours per month overtime.

So they are not able to live outside the factory.

Well some might say thats not my fult that other people can not educate themselfs and aim for a better living.But all is not what it seems in these matters most of the people who work there are female and not from Hong Kong, they hail from various places of Chinas small villages.When asked why all female work force they said they where easier to manage in other words to oppress and abuse.

The people who represent this foctory say they toy companys make a order for a ceartin amount of some toys and demand those toys at a ceartin time.Lets say in 30 days the order must ship. So the workers are put threw overtime we cant imagine.

I do not even wanna speculate how this is around christmas but i can only imagine what these poor people are put threw.

 When they brought up the low wages and inhuman conditions these people live and work under the toy sellers said "If we are to give better wages we need to sell the toys more expensive to the toy companys". The movie says around 30% increase in wages would be needed to make life for the workers just a little better.

But as we all know the toy companies would never buy toys at 30% infalted prices to just make  the worker happy, they know how the set up is and in the movie we are told that these people have visited these factories.

They toy company says that if they up the price by 30% we the consumer would not be haveing that and in many ways they are right.

The problem starts and ends with us.We ask for lower prices in everything not understanding whats behinde these lowerd prices is peoples wages in these slave countrys.

You´ll see and young girl wearing all GAP clothes or Nike and think to yourself wow so much pain just so this person can buy cheap GAP,Nike or any other brand for that matter.Some people would claim this to be industry and just the way things work and to those people i have only one thing to say.Where is your humanity?Where is the compassion for your fellow man?

Im not able to justify to myslef buying clothes for Asia anymore ill rather spend a little more for guilt free clothes and toys.

 There are many things wrong in our society and our world this is one of them.We need to recognise these problem and aim to work at them.Our society should always be focussed on makeing things better for all humanity not cheaper for a few.

With hope and love.

Mr.Rooster.