Re: slightly OT: newspaper article on Amish quilts

Gill Murray wrote:


lucretia borgia wrote:

Gill Murray <gillmurray1@xxxxxxxxxxx>,in
rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote:
and entertained us with


That is what I have never been able to understand from the "activists"( not the right word, but the right one doesn't jump to mind right now).

The complaint that someone only earns "x" many cents(US) an hour in any part of the world, doesn't necessarily equate to what it can buy, and even more, what "luxury" items are even available to buy. In many areas and cultures, being able to feed the family with familiar foods etc, while still living in whatever housing is the local dwelling, gives them a good life.

I think that in the US , we are totally spoiled, and we have far too many luxury items, that are now considered *necessary* for ordinary day-day living. Cellphones, fast foods, convenience foods, TV, even cable, are all deemed to be important. Consequently the populace tends to believe that those who do not have this are deprived. Bull-hockey!

Every kid is supposed to graduate from High School. Some don't want to, or are unable to do so. So be it!! If they can't or won't there are jobs they are capable of doing; floors DO need sweeping,trucks need driving, shelves need stocking etc. A HS diploma is totally unnecessary for such jobs. If schools graduate 100% of the students, to my mind they have not done their job, and are passing through those who do not deserve it!

Flame proof skivvies on, and I don't give a damn!!

To this tough old "Maxine", you get what you work for.

Man......that Soap Box felt good!!

Gillian



I decided to check out the Baht and it is 0.026738 of a US Dollar.

Gillian, are you including child labour as being okay? Frequently the
children are not allowed to live at home, they live on the job site,
they are worked all day in miserable conditions, often unhealthy
conditions which severely shorten their life expectation.

No matter how spoiled we are here, and I would definitely agree we
are, I can never purchase items that I am all too aware have been made
by little fingers. Whichever way I look at it, it means I condone it,
which I cannot. The cost of those few cents is way too high for anyone, particularly a
child.


I am mulling this over. The first thought is that if it is the difference beytween life, albeit not good, versus starvation or worse, one takes the lesser of two evils.

Obviously I hate the idea of little kids slaving away; however, our nations did the same thing a century or so back. Ok, we are *advanced*, and require education etc to all kids. Think of the little kids in the mines and the sweat shops of a hundred years ago. I think the undeveloped countries are in the same situation, but they are accelerating their rate out of it much faster, because of the world's abhorrence of such things.

On the flip side if we do not purchase such items, how will the families of such underdeveloped cultures eat and live??

Moreover, if the choice is between having a child stitch something useful for sale while working at home (as the article implied) or selling the child into prostitution, I think the cottage industry doesn't look so bad.

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Brenda
Tickler of Chuzzles
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