Blog 15: A Reality Check
Focusing on the reading about Nike, it was actually kind of sad. We hear stories about these so called sweat shops. Reading up on it gives me three very distinct emotions; sympathy gratefulness and anger. I sympathize with these women in the Nike sweat shops because of their daily lives, working sixty-hour plus work Weeks, is crazy I can not imagine doing that then being expected to go home and be the woman of the house hold and cook and clean etc. But what truly made me sympathize was their pay. These women who obviously work so hard get paid less than a fraction of what their selling the shoes for. I felt grateful because we live in a nation where that type of work would be considered illegal. I’m grateful I live in a nation where you have a set minim wage and their are other options for jobs. Most of these women in countries such as these would kill for a job working in a Nike shop just so they could get work and make money even if its just under forty dollars a month. Reading article like this one really puts a lot of thing into perspective for me, and makes me realize how blessed and lucky we are to be able to live in a country where these things would not fly. I was angry because reading how Nike and companies like Nike take these women in and extort them for their own beneficial relief. Companies don’t see these women as people but rather someone who will make them money and will take advantage of them if they need to. Its funny how reading about something can make you so passionate about it but thankfully it gave me a reality check that things like this can happen and do happen
