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Bangladesh redux

a similar thing happened in ghana just after I left. I saw multiple buildings being constructed in accra and wondered how and the hell these buildings stay up. peole take a helluva lot of things for granted in this country, and one of them is bvuilding codes and inspectors
 
Damn.......17 days ago? Didn't hear anything about it till now. If it had happened in England, Russia, or even China, it would have been front page news.
 
oh btw this event has led the givernment of bangaldesh to now allow unions for garment workers.

http://news.yahoo.com/bangladesh-allow-unions-garment-workers-082438783.html

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh's government agreed Monday to allow the country's garment workers to form trade unions without prior permission from factory owners, the latest response to a building collapse that killed more than 1,100 people and focused global attention on the industry's hazardous conditions.

The Cabinet decision came a day after the government announced a plan to raise the minimum wage for garment workers, who are paid some of the lowest wages in the world to sew clothing bound for global retailers. Both moves are seen as a direct response to the April 24 collapse of an eight-story building housing five garment factories, the worst disaster in the history of the global garment industry.
 
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I want something good to come of it. I know that global capitalism is always gonna win, but damn. Glad to hear of the union formation. Hope it comes true.

Those Bangladeshi shipbreakers are pretty much at the bottom of the pile as well. Don't know if you saw the report on them. Working barefoot as they salvage the metal off of old ships, oil and other machine fluids everywhere, oozin' in the ocean and such.

PS. I believe the story was overshadowed here by Boston bombing.
 
I would rather be a subsitence farmer than in afactory like that. fuck that shit. hell on earth
 
kevin 714 said:
I would rather be a subsitence farmer than in afactory like that. fuck that shit. hell on earth
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Ya know, the other most disturbing profession image that I keep seeing are people who work the garbage dumps in various parts of the world. Latin America and the Phillipines, and I guess India, too...
 
Bay Arean said:
Ya know, the other most disturbing profession image that I keep seeing are people who work the garbage dumps in various parts of the world. Latin America and the Phillipines, and I guess India, too...
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There was a spot on VICE about the slums of Mumbi.

People living off of garbage in the slums next to a billionaire's 60 story high rise home.
 
a nepal one too, something about born toxic.

theres also a whole thing on youtube about a town that lives in a dum. literally, the town is a garbage refuse area. they live IN the garbage
 
Yeh, I'm enjoying (if that's the right word) VICE. Relevant shitski. I have to say that, whatever's Maher's role is as exec producer, he's actually doing something good beyond cussing in front of phDs and being stubbornly stupid on some topics. He shut himself out of his panel last Friday night, then just pulled the plug on the conversation when he couldn't win his point. VICE is redeeming him.
 
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Bay Arean said:
Ya know, the other most disturbing profession image that I keep seeing are people who work the garbage dumps in various parts of the world. Latin America and the Phillipines, and I guess India, too...
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Yeah, I can't think of much worse, and it's really a shame. Sometimes, those garbage piles crumble, and people die underneath.
 
Reli said:
Damn.......17 days ago? Didn't hear anything about it till now. If it had happened in England, Russia, or even China, it would have been front page news.
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Wow, really?
 
Reli said:
But, but.......free enterprise would ensure safety for everyone, due to the natural forces of competition!!!!!!!1
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This is (probably a joking) misunderstanding of markets and market power. Few people think that markets would solve EVERYTHING (hence we have contract rights enforced in court, we understand externalities, monopoly power, and other market failures).

The real issue (as you probably know) is about reasonable, intelligent regulation versus oppressive, unreasonable ones.
 
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