£115 for a shirt seems rather pricey. Obviously worse considering how it is made and the material cost probably being very low. Profit margins must be enormous
Qatar should boycott England playing because of their ties to slave labour
As long as people keep buying them at that price why would they drop it? Nike is famous for exploiting their suppliers and using sweatshops so no surprises there.
Now we’ll have another five minute outrage and both say “sorry” and continue as usual.
I bet one of their defences is it takes over a hundreds hours to make one shirt
A like for like replica in a Thai street market stall is likely to set you back a mere £5.
Terrible kit though. Don’t recommend it. Anyone spending over £100 on one of these is an absolute mug.
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The new lot just getting to grips with how the world works.
Everything you own is worth peanuts.
Apple,Google,Nike etc all use slave labour and sold to us for£££££££.
If it stops,the pennies they earn will cease to exist and they will be worse off.
Big companies are to blame,we buy their pointless shit so we are to blame also. Solution? Fuck knows.
Qatar also has around 40 billion USD worth of investments into the UK
Its exploitation all the way down
Simple, don’t buy one.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Country for exploiting human rights exploits human rights.
in other news….
It is very bad, but if you don’t like that, wait until you hear about like 90% of your wardrobe.
Hasn’t that kinda been the same for the last 20 years ?
Don’t buy one. Get a second hand one if you can.
Don’t see the problem.
It’s not as if we are paying workers in the UK £1 an hour to make the shirts.
They are being made in Thailand.
It’s fine as long as we can’t see it.
Then when Thailand hosts the world cup we can kick up a big fuss.
Just like when we sell weapons to the Saudis, buy oil from them, buy clothes made in India, China, Bangladesh etc.
Everything that involves this shithole world cup stinks
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This is the problem with throwing stones
England has enough weight to insist the shirts are made in a country with decent employment laws or that the workers are paid a minimum amount
The massive mark up. These kits could be made in England by an English manufacturer, sure there wouldn’t be the the ridiculous profit but there would still be a decent profit.
What sort of twat buys a 115 football top
Worth noting that minimum wage in Thailand is around £8 per day
Yeah, but Harry Kane is going to wear a rainbow armband and they’re going to take the knee before kickoff tomorrow, so don’t worry about it /s
A quick google search let me know that £1 an hour is above the Thai minimum wage, but more importantly if you account for purchasing power parity, this is equivalent to being paid £11 an hour in the UK…
Ridiculous price and mark up for the distributor but this is not equivalent to literal slavery in Qatar and is therefore highly misleading.
This belongs in r/boringdystopia
I’m not saying I agree with it from a profiteering side but how does £1 an hour in Thailand compare to a typical wage? I know people who have gone to places like that and paid equivalent of 20p for meals out.
The other post I saw about this said it was Bangladeshi’s being paid 21p/hour
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What’s wrong with that?
£115 for a shirt seems rather pricey. Obviously worse considering how it is made and the material cost probably being very low. Profit margins must be enormous
Qatar should boycott England playing because of their ties to slave labour
As long as people keep buying them at that price why would they drop it? Nike is famous for exploiting their suppliers and using sweatshops so no surprises there.
Now we’ll have another five minute outrage and both say “sorry” and continue as usual.
I bet one of their defences is it takes over a hundreds hours to make one shirt
A like for like replica in a Thai street market stall is likely to set you back a mere £5.
Terrible kit though. Don’t recommend it. Anyone spending over £100 on one of these is an absolute mug.
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The new lot just getting to grips with how the world works.
Everything you own is worth peanuts.
Apple,Google,Nike etc all use slave labour and sold to us for£££££££.
If it stops,the pennies they earn will cease to exist and they will be worse off.
Big companies are to blame,we buy their pointless shit so we are to blame also. Solution? Fuck knows.
Qatar also has around 40 billion USD worth of investments into the UK
Its exploitation all the way down
Simple, don’t buy one.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Country for exploiting human rights exploits human rights.
in other news….
It is very bad, but if you don’t like that, wait until you hear about like 90% of your wardrobe.
Hasn’t that kinda been the same for the last 20 years ?
Don’t buy one. Get a second hand one if you can.
Don’t see the problem.
It’s not as if we are paying workers in the UK £1 an hour to make the shirts.
They are being made in Thailand.
It’s fine as long as we can’t see it.
Then when Thailand hosts the world cup we can kick up a big fuss.
Just like when we sell weapons to the Saudis, buy oil from them, buy clothes made in India, China, Bangladesh etc.
Everything that involves this shithole world cup stinks
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This is the problem with throwing stones
England has enough weight to insist the shirts are made in a country with decent employment laws or that the workers are paid a minimum amount
The massive mark up. These kits could be made in England by an English manufacturer, sure there wouldn’t be the the ridiculous profit but there would still be a decent profit.
What sort of twat buys a 115 football top
Worth noting that minimum wage in Thailand is around £8 per day
Yeah, but Harry Kane is going to wear a rainbow armband and they’re going to take the knee before kickoff tomorrow, so don’t worry about it /s
A quick google search let me know that £1 an hour is above the Thai minimum wage, but more importantly if you account for purchasing power parity, this is equivalent to being paid £11 an hour in the UK…
Ridiculous price and mark up for the distributor but this is not equivalent to literal slavery in Qatar and is therefore highly misleading.
This belongs in r/boringdystopia
I’m not saying I agree with it from a profiteering side but how does £1 an hour in Thailand compare to a typical wage? I know people who have gone to places like that and paid equivalent of 20p for meals out.
The other post I saw about this said it was Bangladeshi’s being paid 21p/hour