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inevitable
You're shocked! shocked! that some media mouthpiece trumps profits over workers' rights? where have you been for the past 50 years?
OK, I'm just being mean.
So what are we going to do about it? boycotting cheap crap from China only hurts the Chinese, since the peripatetic factory owners will pull up stakes in a minute for, oh, Laos or Bangladesh, anywhere else that's cheaper with worker-hostile and bribe-receptive governments.
I have long maintained that the last great sweatshop nations will be those of coastal Africa, once the rest of the third world gets tired of being brutalized so Wal-Mart goobers can save two cents on underpants and the share price remains propped up.