Friday, February 5, 2010

I Can't Decide Which Is Worse

Which of the following is a greater atrocity foisted upon society at large by Reebok*?

*A subsidiary of Adidas, in turn a subsidiary of Halliburton, in turn a subsidiary of ESPN, in turn a subsidiary of Disney.**

**Not really. Or at least not most of it.

This report that Reebok, under contract from the NFL (America's Favorite Shit-filled Unilateralist Colossus), was, until September 2009, when the NFL pulled its contract from the sweatshop, was paying workers $0.72 per hour to produce replica jerseys that sell for $80...*

Or this?
Woof. I got some shoes to set on fire. Just gotta remember to take my feet out of 'em first.

*In case you don't care to read the report, workers sewing NFL replica jerseys were being paid $0.72 per hour with mandatory unpaid overtime (illegal even in the third-world nation of El Salvador) until the NFL stopped producing merchandise at the factory in September 2009. Since then, the factory has been producing other garments for Reebok and Adidas without the NFL's imprimatur and -- as per El Salvadorean labor law -- are being paid double-time for overtime. They are still grotesquely underpaid, of course, but no longer illegally so.

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1 comments:

mattymatty said...

That shoe looks like something you'd design if your production costs were $0.02 an hour, not $0.72.