natty dread wrote:...bullshit, huh?
yep. bullshit.
ofcourse you have to realise the situation of each country.
what might seem torture and slavery to an englishman could very well be heaven on earth for somebody in a poor country.
how many people in your country would work 60 hours per week for less than 150 euros per month? and in most cases those money would be given with no employment records so no insurance and healthcare. would you call that slavery? how about jobs where you work in unsafe conditions? or where the boss hits you and curses you and treats you like his own personal servant? would this be considered slavery?
well in romania it's not. there are people that work like that. and you know what's worse? sometimes they don't get their wages until 2-3 months later and in this time they resort to loaning and they live in absolute misery, and yet they don't quit their job? why? because the alternative is to either be jobless or steal.
now imagine in some countries it is even worse than this.
you can't really know what serious poverty is until you've seen it with your own eyes. when you have no food you'd do any job no matter how hard or under what sort of miserable conditions. sure some people eventually break and suicide. but they probably would have died of hunger sooner if it had not been for that job.
you live in a wealthy country. you're fortunate. probably the crappiest job in your country still pays better than most of the jobs in my country. and i'm sure that the guy that has that crappy job can still afford the bare necessities like food and shelter. and if they're somehow unable to get a job the state probably provides some sort of shelters for the poor.
in my country that doesn't happen. hard working people end up on the street homeless. people that did honest work and held simple jobs for 40-45 years are now forced to search through trash for scraps of food because after working all those years their pension is now under 100 euros. the house that they built or bought is now without running watter or heat cause they can't pay the bills.
and i'm living in the capital of romania. imagine there are worse places in my own contry. i can't even think what could be like in even poorer countries. last winter the weather was really harsh, much harsher than usual. i saw 2 people dead on the street because of the cold. they had no place to live and wound up frozen during the night. in the year 2012 in the european union. yeah.
so for people like these, trust me living at a chinese apple factory is a dream come true.
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