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Originally Posted by Roadking2003
You obviously have no first hand information on this topic. Many of the products produced off shore have as good or better quality as American made products.
And the people employed are not slaves, and are not under paid. In fact, they live quite comfortably and are considered middle income or better.
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Not always. In Mexico, there are factories which take advantage of the Mexicans low wages and places tons of pressure and stress on the workers.
"Carlos says Juarez employees are treated as expendable and forced to work long hours and put in a lot of overtime. He says nothing illegal is being done by the company, but he says the company knows how bad Mexican employees need their jobs.
"They know they have families, they know they depend on rides, they depend on eating from the factories, and they'll put pressure and they really don't care about employees."
Three months ago we covered a riot at one of the Foxconn factories in Juarez. It happened after workers said
managers locked 3-thousand employees in the factory so they would work extra hours."
Juarez Factory Employee Alleges Mistreatment | KTSM News Channel 9
Not to mention the number of women who work at these factories who are kidnapped and/or killed. A few years ago there was a huge problem with Mexican women who work at American-owned factories and a large number of them were kidnapped and killed. They cannot afford their own cars, so many of them have to either walk or travel by bus (and bus travel did not stop the murders). So, I wouldn't say they were living comfortable, middle-wage lives. Though, maybe it's different in China.
To Work and Die in Juarez | Mother Jones
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