The Rich Mans Burden
Do you ever stop to take a look at the label on the shirt that you are wearing? What does it say, Taiwan, China, India, Mexico? Now think about the people who made that shirt for you to wear, what kind of life do they lead? Where do they work? Our modern consumer society leads us to disconnect between the item and its producer. We no longer buy goods, we buy comodities. When you buy chicken breasts in the supermarket all pristenly wrapped in plastic ready for you to cook and eat, do you stop to think about the chicken(s) that had to die for you to have a meal? Do you consider the standard of living of that chicken or of the farmer that produced it for you? Where do you think the workers that mass produce our clothes, etc work? In a nice shiny factory with lots of room, decent pay and many safety procedures? Or do they work in crowded, hot factories, where they get no benefits, little pay for their work and no chance of equal rights. They cannot mobilize and collaborate their feelin...