Sweat shops and you

This is something I have been thinking about for a good while now. The benefits of sweat shops are actually greater than you think. You know you can hit me up with how they treat there workers like crap and they are abusive, pay them shit wages or just in food. Well the way I look at it is that they benefit the people who work there as well as the local community. I am also not talking about mining jobs all over the world because that is not the same as sewing on some buttons on a shirt, or hand stitching some shoes together.

There are a lot of things to take into account when you are talking about the benefits of sweatshops and one of the main ones is giving areas a tax base to work with and helping create an infrastructure to help build up the area around the sweatshop. Chicago is a great model for just that.Chicago's sweatshops started in 1880's until eh really now, they are just less prominent now then they were. The horror's that used to be Chicago's meat packing industry were ridiculous and appalling. People would die lose limbs fingers shit like that and the same would go for the steel mills and other shitty jobs of that nature. While at the same time all of this tax money was being created and the city was reinvesting it into the city's infrastructure and helped develop better roads, public transportation, white collar jobs and other things.

The sweat shops created really shitty environments to work in, but eventually workers have enough of the bullshit and they stand up for their rights and fight back against the employer. Take for example the GM strike in Flint, MI in 1936-1937. The workers had finally had enough and they got what they wanted. Unions started to form and work conditions improved and all that fun stuff. The only problem now is that the UAW placed themselves out of the market as far as pay and all of that because they want to make $35 and benefits putting car windshields on a Buick. Craziness is what I call that.

Despite how horrible these sweatshops are, they give people jobs, and America is crying for more sweatshop labor. VW AG just announced that they are building a sweatshop in Chattanooga, TN and that it will directly employ 2000 workers for the plant. VW AG is also talking about having other parts of the car being built in the US. VW AG will pay people less then what they are used to but it will still be a livable wage. $16 an hour plus benefits is a livable wage.

With places like Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Costco, etc…. they are sweat shops as well, but like sweatshops they create a great tax base for the communities that surround the factory/business. People complain that they don't pay a good enough wage to the employee's and I say that is bullshit because if you don't have a job, work is work, simple and plain. There are plenty of people here in the states that would love to have a shitty job. A low paying job is better than no job.

Sweat shops in developing countries can be a great blessing to the region/country. I'm not just talking about steel mills, chemical plants, toy factories, etc…..but things like your Armani suit or your Burberry purse. Did you know that it only take 2% of a garment to be considered made in Italy? Well it's true, all that needs to be done is have your shirt buttons tacked onto your Versace dress shirt and it is Made in Italy. Sweatshops benefit those who do not have any type of work available and might starve otherwise.

The sweatshops also help bring modern conveniences to rural areas like, running water, electricity, plumbing, paved roads, medical care etc…..and with all of this it creates a new tax base to which a community can be built. Then if the workers get tired of the poor treatment they will revolt and demand better working conditions, better pay, health services, etc….and you can start to have things like better schools, police, modern hospitals. All of this can be provided by the tax base that is created around the factory.

Lastly, why is it that everyone is so quick to point out the horrible work conditions in other countries and not pay attention to what is going on here in the US? We as a country are so quick to point out all of these human rights violations and all of this other bullshit, when we have the most people in prison period. This beyond acceptable anymore, this is a country built on free and cheap labor and that is how really any country comes up, and who are we to say what a country can and can't do to try to help rise it's self out of poverty? All of this save the world cause type shit you need to kill it, because we need to take care of our Country first.