The Price of Our Shoes

by M.H.

Look at your shoes. Seriously, take them off and check them out. You might want to find a location that's clear of people. Now look at the tag. Where is it made? What's happening in that country? Who do you think that made them? The factories!!!!!

Perhaps you that you don't even think who made the shoes that you are wearing right now. However, you might be surprised that they are poor childrens anywhere around the world. They might be in Taiwan or India or some new factory sweatshop in a city across the globe. The workers earn pennies per hour. That is so little that they sometimes work all day to buy there family a little bit of food, but they still don't make enough to really have a living. The shoe corporations pay them so little bit that it is a rip off. But hey if you think that they get ripped off imagine the manager getting all happy and getting a bonus or the athlete who gets millions just to pretend that the shoes are nicer than they are.

Like for example you love your shoes and then you go out to buy some new ones in Foot Locker and you waste $80-120 on some Jordans and then you pay them and you just wasted more than what a worker in the factory makes in a month. Your participation in the process is a participation in slavery. I know that sounds harsh. I know that you may not quit using shoes, because no one else around you would accept you. But it's sad that we all participate in slavery just so that we can fit in.

That is so messed up you probably think; but hey if there is no where else for you to go and work then you will probably work there because your family needs food and of course you need food to.So those people do not go there because they want to they go there because they need money to help there family and children.People think that hey can't we just go to work in cleaning houses or mowing lawns,but there are no jobs like those over there so then they will have to go to do those jobs. It's easy to say, "go fight for your rights," but this is hard because there is no whining because if you whine then you get out of that job and be so poor that you will die starving and of thirst.

Photo Credit
Flickr Creative Commons
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pollytipsy/3124114994/