The True Cost Page #3

the fact is that now three of the four worst tragedies

in fashion history they had occurred in the past year.

While growing death toll amounted profits generated.

The following year disaster Rana Square,

It was the most profitable sector for all time.

The global fashion industry

It is now an annual industry nearly three trillion dollars.

Bangladesh is already the second largest

exporter of clothing after China.

How? Well, unlike some of its competitors,

Bangladeshi manufacturing is still very cheap,

and unions have limited power.

The country grabbed the lower end of the value chain.

1000 Those poor girls, were killed

because no one cared, no one will give a sh*t.

Just they wanted cheap price and good profit.

It should not be.

Everyone should take responsibility for these girls.

it's like that.

It could happen again.

Sorry, but it's not just the price pressure.

It is something ...

It is to ignore the lives of others.

It's not ... should not ... it's not right.

We are in the XXI century.

We live in a global world,

And just we ignore the lives of others?

How it is possible?

This huge and predatory industry

which it is generating many benefits

for a handful of people,

Why is unable

to support their million workers properly?

Why you are not able to ensure their safety?

We are talking about basic human rights.

Why is unable to ensure that

while it is generating these huge profits?

Is it because it does not work properly?

That is my question.

Lucy's question sounds like the most obvious.

But instead of answering, wherever I looked, I found people

constantly justify the cost

by economic benefits generated.

So this production of low wages, so-called "sweatshops"

is not only the least bad option for the workers,

It is part of a process that raises living standards

and leads to higher wages and better working conditions wages.

The immediate causes of development are physical capital, technology

and human capital and worker skills.

When they workshops to those countries,

the three elements bring these workers

and begin to put that process in motion.

Can sweatshops be really good?

Yes, those terrible, horrible workshops.

The very name "sweatshop"

conjures up horrific images of poor people and children,

suffering in Third World countries, enslaved in appalling conditions

making products for us, selfish Americans.

And thanks. Good!

Does it bother me that people are working in a factory,

making clothes for Americans,

or European?

Or they are ... What so spend their lives?

Is that what you're asking?

Yeah right.

No. I mean, they are doing work.

They could be doing much worse.

This is live television, and ask

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