Fashion: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- Trendy clothes are cheaper than ever. That sounds great for the people who buy them, but it's horrible for the people who make them.
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I hope one day John will host the White House corespondents dinner...
J Lal John doesn't host kiss-ass suckup events. Save that for the fake comedians.
***** Save that for the next Republican president.
Logan Graham we are saving colberts second time for the next republican president.
J Lal He's said in the past he doesn't want to
CaptainOvious123 www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=323335539
The little girl's eyebrows promise a painful death. I shudder just thinking about what happened to the food she brought.
Khorothis since I have worked in chicken production you are right to shudder ...
Al J Those sweet, supple lips... Mmm.
Kera C WHAT. DA. FUCK!?
Holy shit....
Kera C Boy, that escalated quickly ...
Kera C can i vomit now? I really feel like its a good time to :/
John Oliver is amazing he tackles real issues in a humorous way. I just wish it was taken more seriously!
But he doesn't tackle issues. He, and everyone else working to create these shows, highlights issues so others might eventually tackle them. He's the fire alarm. Not the fire department.
rennlc Well that's more than any other TV show I have seen.
Liste
***** Then they forget when the show is over and go back to their lives.
GUILHERME HENRIQUE What?
Now I'm an Indian. Child labour and poverty are genuine issues here. And still you cannot imagine to be of any worth without being wrapped in those branded fabrics. Here garments are not just fashion statement, they are a representative of your socio-economic status and maybe even your character. And then there is this hollow sense of pride associated with a fucking piece of cloth. It's like the phrase 'born with a silver spoon in one's mouth' should be effectively replaced with 'born with a tag up one's ass'.
Fuck yeah
thanks I could use that reminder
holy shit, this is a very good comment. thank you for posting
Agreed but sadly many of these kids are driven to work so they can help provide for their family needs i.e. house, food, education, healthcare etc. Unlike many I would rather they be better paid, work in safe environments & pay more for clothing than eliminate these jobs then again if there were better paying jobs maybe kids wouldn't be forced or feel obligated to work.
Quique They shouldn’t have to work in the first place. Kids are kids, they shouldn’t have to take care of their families, their families should be taking care of them. So the solution has to be better than to just raise salaries, and improve workplace conditions. Families need to be helped, maybe through access to free education and healthcare, as well as better salaries for those who are not underage, I understand your point, but I think we owe kids a better solution than higher paychecks
He is genuinely good. He addresses the real issues in today's society we all choose to ignore.
Not really, this is nothing more than a back-handed advertisement for big pricier clothing companies. Atleast some people would change buying cheap clothes to moderatively expensive clothing after watching this which translates to more sales for those companies. I wonder how much they paid him to air this.
Alex Berry Just cause someone paid to defame one specific thing doesn't mean every news which criticizes is paid by it's competitors. But I do believe trump thing could be paid by clinton, afterall majority of media & entertainment outlets are pro-clinton, everywhere I see there is a huge bias against trump, like the recent manipulation by google the search results are altered in a way which favors clinton and hides the her crime results.
Not really. The point is that even the pricier brands use bargain-basement labor forces overseas, so switching to a higher-priced brand won't make a difference. The real way to effect change in this area is to pressure the manufacturers to provide side benefits - education! In order to sell goods produced under these conditions, the manufacturers should be required to fund a small school that provides an hour of education for every hour worked. Yep, that means they'll have to hire twice as many workers (at the standard low wage in that location) - and twice as many will benefit. That will either improve everyone's lot, or move manufacturing back stateside if the costs equal out.
Victorr r Wow. Really? That's what you got from it? wow.
Amazing Deepak Companies and countries go extreme, downright cruel lengths to gain edge over their counterparts. companies like Mcdonalds and pretty much every major fast food hub insert artificially created parasites into their food, which grows inside human body and destroys the good bacteria inside the stomach, regularly eating these foods will alter the brain to create lust for that food, which ultimately translates to more sales for them, this is the reason why good portion of americans and mexicans are fat and find it hard to abandon fast foods and reduce their bodyfat levels. Hypermarkets pump in specific chemicals near stations containing foods, these chemicals will alter your hormonal response by which there is an increased chance of you buying that product. The world is not black & white, it's not my fault that you think everything media shows is honest without no hidden intent. Ask someone who works as a journalist to know about the bias & bigotry of the media, especially when it comes to politics & corporates.
This is why I'm sticking with made in the U.S clothes now. They are way more expensive. I rather have fewer quality clothing that aren't made from the overworked hands of children than to have loads of shit in my closet. And besides, the minimalist style is far better than all this weird crap.
Fernando Herrera Would mine sharing were someone can find these made in America clothes? Or any other other made in America product? Because I struggle greatly trying to find anything that is made in America.
netwolfe Lone Flag is a good one. Anything made in America tends to be very pricey but lasts way longer. You will pass some of these items down to your kids if you know how to take care of them properly. You can find Lone Flag on instagram and a lot of their followers and collaborations are with other made in U.S.A clothing brands.
Fernando Herrera you should be a sponsor for lone flags lol
***** hey I know quality when I see it.
Fernando Herrera The problem with your assertion is that you have to be able to afford your morality. Research the real unemployment rate and discover how many U.S. citizens can't afford clothes made in our own country.
This is why I refuse to wear any sort of clothing
Redem10 So that on your upper body there is what, your skin?
Tarudizer Yeah, he's black. Got a problem with that?
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Redem10 ME TOO
***** that's how Jesus did it. I can't think of a better way to get close to him, it, the....
I'm sitting here, sewing worn-out cargo pants into a skirt.
Recycling, yo.
And I'm sitting here, cutting off the legs of my old favourite jeans and BOOM I got comfortable shorts. That's called UPcycling.
@@cherry7590 Because the hem went up?
Recycling: destroying the old and creating something completely new.
Upcycling: CHANGING the old and creating something new.
@@cherry7590 I was just making a punny joke. ^ ^
@@johannageisel5390 I'm sorry! Me:☺. The joke: ↗️
"aspirational poster for fire safety"
Brilliant.
Don't you ever wonder why us, living in the so called "first world" enjoy so many benefits? Why we have so much to choose from at the stores? Why our companies make so much money?... One day we will all pay the price for the apathy we show for the rest of the world.
Slavery was never abolished, it was simply embellished inside a system that labels it "labour" (Child-Labour, Hand-Labour, Bonded-Labour, Forced-Labour, etc. etc. etc.).
***** Keep on trolling... & be a good little system's Zombie...
Incertus Veritas
Slavery does not exist any longer. For the guideline of today's unequal exploitation is not "Work or we'll kill you because we can", it's "work or we'll both die".
Companies exploit children/use force/ you name it because if they fail to do so, someone else will. And in the process they will sell at cheaper and overtake your role in the sector. As for the workers, they are willing to accept the conditions because it means having one of the few jobs for the massive population. We tend to forget that there is a massive population which means major needs in term of jobs. Having sweatshops is a baby step toward improvement of that situation. It means the developement of basic infrastructure and at least the worker will be able to feed himself at the end of the day.
Trouble is they can never start to walk but that's another issue, and this is where the problem truly lies.
000a300 I guess you are a person that accepts the world as it is, right? Not worth fighting for... & a futile endeavor to try to change it. Very rational thing to believe. No wonder our man made world will never change... at least not from any effort we will make.
Slavery is what it is; forced to work for anything without a possibility of a bright future... Just to barely survive & thousands die just like in the old days... Slaves received compensation of some sort, now a days we call it money. What's the difference if a person can't have the right to live in "humane" conditions, at least with the very basics. Over population is this system's BS fairy tale created by that 1% that owns everything.
Incertus Veritas
This is where I beg to differ. Change exists, and it is worth "fighting" so as to improve the situation of a few, at least from a moral ground. The thing, a singular and personnal effort will not be broad, and human nature will not allow for everyone to go for the same effort. Only when you reach a position in power you can starting changing things. Otherwise we are mere spectators, that I agree with.
However, I'll stay firm saying the nature of exploitation is different from the "old days". Thousands upon thousands die, but not out of millions, but out of billions. The massive population pressure is putting far more stain on ressources of all kinds than our involvment in the countries that are a necesery evil to see any progress, (talking about companies, the IMF is simply a cancer). The difference is that we do not enforce a pressure with arms, the setup is already there by itself. We are not innocent but not entierly guilty for the situation neither. That is, I believe, the difference with "old days" slavery.
Now you say this is a BS fairytale but... I fail to see how. I mean, when China had to put in place a one child policy and India a castration policy, do they not prove theirselves the importance of a population control scheme?
000a300 I do understand you completely; but I differ in the fact that when a person has no choice & it's born in a place where life & death is just a breath away we could very easily call it "bondage" "slavery"; working in a sweat factory for a bowl of rice is not how humans are supposed to live, we are at the mercy a giant genetic lottery that the great majority of humans lose just by being born in the wrong country or the wrong geographic location.
Your last paragraph is just a simple question of management. This system is managed by greedy, socially shortsighted people; that old excuse that it is all so large, there's just too many people is not a valid problem simply because it is not a problem. The problem lies with our leaders, with power, with greed; basically our human nature. We are supposed to be better than that; we should be able to provide a real life for every single person living today... I always wonder, how many Einsteins, Mozarts, Picassos, humanity has lost because they were born in the wrong place? The most precious natural resource we are wasting, has & always will be Humans.
i work in fashion. my professor once told a true story of a young girl from sweatshop. the factory had to let go of those kids because of the exposure. the girl begged the manager to keep her or her family will sell her to brothel to support their son. child labor is crime but was escape from sex trafficking for the girl...
The realities of the world is horrible.
@Josny13
Solving world hunger and poverty is harder than it sounds - if it were truly possible that would be the best option, but it isn't feasible atleast in the near future. Stamping out both sweat shops and sex trafficking would lead to the child starving to death instead.... It's a lose, lose. Maybe we should instead focus on increasing pay/working conditions for children and accept a slightly higher cost for our clothing.
Wow that’s heart breaking
@Josny13OF COURSE sex trafficking and child labour are BOTH CRIMES. I knew this case would be totally misunderstood by some. I ONLY stated that things have both sides, we don't know the whole story of these victims. And as consumers, we choose NOT TO buy from these companies.
@sheldon pereira If EU said to h&m and other manufacturers that they will form a institution with respective governments to have basic labour standards, then essentially ban all foreign companies selling clothes in substandard conditions from entire EU unless they comply with same standards companies would immediately shift their shit, otherwise entire EU market would be held by EU companies which would crash their companies. If EU and USA did same thing it would essentially do same thing globally.
I AM from Bangladesh, and I say this with a heavy heart- most of those children are better off than others in our country. What is making these children lie about their age and work more than 10 hours a day? Their families are STARVED. The education system is a JOKE. They'd rather be doing something they UNDERSTAND and make some money while at it!
A good solution, as many before me in this thread have suggested, would be raising their wages. Forcing these factory owners to keep their greed in check. If you already are among the 20 richest men in the world, it wouldn't hurt to actually PAY your employees with the money they so need and deserve!
64 clothes per year? I don't know if I ever owned 64 clothes in total.
It's prob counting like every sock so a pair is 2 pieces of clothing. 😂😂😂
Average American buys 64 garments a year factoid just statistical anomaly. Average American buys 12 garments a year. Clothes georg who lives in cave and buys 10000 clothes a day is an outlier and should not have been counted
Includes undergarments and socks.
@@swamivardana9911 still big number. I am not American but let's count 10 pair of socks +5 pants+5 T-shirts+ 2 jeans + 2 jackets + maybe 10 of something other... still not close
@@bachristus My son in law has 100 T shirts. He lives in Australia. Whenever he faces emotional distress he buys a couple of T shirts. But yes an an average it is a huge figure.
You should do another Fast Fashion episode but this time focusing on the Environmental Impact.
Hasan Minhaj: write that down! Write that down!
@@highsun76 And he did
@@claudia8861 yep. Hasan did a great job with his fast fashion piece
Hasan Minhaj did that on his show.
@@highsun76 hahah i was gonna recommend hasan minhaj's episode of patriot act
I suppose a more depressing question is why a 14 year old needs to lie about being 18 to get a crappy job in a sweatshop :/
So they don't starve to death. Surprisingly extreme poverty exist in the world and these kids do what's needed but middle class Americans would rather they starve then work. Cause guilt?
JadedCrypt Finally someone who looks at the source of the problem. Make no mistake the exploitation of this source of cheap labor is still wrong and should be considered criminal. But will simply closing a factory that employs 12-14 year old children help the 12-14 year old children if they have decided they need a job to make money so they can have some food?
The economic situation is so poor in those countries that it forces labor to be cheap. Now if a young teen wants to make some money I believe they should be given the opportunity for employment but education should take precedence. Still it doesn't solve the problem of low wages even if you did curtail their hours. After all most of them lied about their age to get a full time job even one that pays poorly.
***** Well - I'd say that you should pay that ~10-30% more so that the owner of the factory could pay the father of the 12-14 year old double so that the kid could go to school and daddy could provide for his family.
At least in our supermarket we have these bananas and some other fruit that have a "fair-trade"-sticker on them and usually they cost just a tad more than the "industrial option" so quite often I buy those - I can't imagine why they don't have the same for clothes and other products as well.
I heard people protested to get some sweatshops closed but offered no alternative. Most of the kids ended up in prostitution :/
***** maybe he's saying it's stupid they're restricting a 14 year old from giving up their future by quitting school to work untold hours in a sweatshop because the real way you solve social problems like destitution is always with capitalism.
Guess the only ethical thing to do is make your own clothing or go naked.
Ann Le {Anneorshine} I'm down for the latter
Ann Le {Anneorshine} There's a growing number of fair trade labels if you can afford the higher prices. If not, I'd go with second hand clothing and here in Germany there are also platforms for trading clothes. It's a lot more comfortable than going to second hand shops and my experiences so far have been great.
***** Discount you say? So extra bangladeshi kids dying?
***** I see, I hope you are right.
You can try new brands, Everlane for example they explain you where the clothes are coming from, etc etc
My outfit during the spring, summer and early fall: Jeans and tee-shirt.
My outfit during late-fall and the winter: Jeans and a flannel shirt.
I'm a walking calendar.
Me in in summer: A very thick and warm jacket and pants. That's also me in spring and fall. At winter i look like John Snow (alive) wearing five times warmer clothes than usual. (PS. Im from Finland
+Owen Hale
my spring collection outfit: my fluffy tail.
my summer collection: my fluffy tail.
guess the rest.
+Owen Hale #ontrend #summerlook #allyeararoundlook #fashionista
My summer outfits:jeans and a t shirt.
All other seasons outfit:t shirt, jeans, and hoodie
"Eat this wagon of mystery chickens" Now there's something you don't hear everyday. Or expect to hear from an episode titled "Fashion"
The way it cut off was amazing too.
it kinda reminds me of the game elysian tail were you punch a wall and suddenly a cooked chicken falls out...
IT'S EVEN CALLED MYSTERY CHICKEN!!!!!!!
It's not the companies that demand low prices. It's us.
+Biguss Dickus Yeah, but even in stores that have a higher price point and should be able to make their clothes here or pay their workers a living wage, such as JCrew, they often choose not to. The bottom line for a lot of companies is that they can make more profit. Apple has zero reason for building their products their the way they do.
Also, not all of it is consumer greed. With so many jobs no longer in the US our Economy is becoming very one sided and it forces people to need things like clothing to be cheap. Many people can't afford clothing at a higher price point. It's a vicious cycle, that enables the rich to get richer, and ultimately the bubble will burst.
+itsallpine A lot of people are unaware of these practices, but regardless of such, when practices are ubiquitous, those practices become the standard. That's where regulation becomes important, but regulation is often politically toxic. You're asking a lot from human nature for everyone to do something on merit. Regulation is key.
***** At this point it's a vast majority of companies. Many people do not have option of boycotting those places. Think about grocery stores and the food industry. Not everyone lives in an area with co-ops and other alternative grocery stores. Consumer choice is part of it, but it's largely the systemic and there has to be changes at a higher level.
As a whole we have plenty to eat in the industrialized west, but many families go without food security. It's something I see everyday working for a non-profit, don't be so presumptuous.
Also, you may not be familiar with Food Deserts. A term coined to define large regions without decent grocery stores. Poor people in these areas literally do not have options. The choices you make are only as good as the options available to you. If it's between your kids going hungry and them eating you will buy what you need to. If it's not Food Deserts, than it's the reality that many people are stretching their food budget, and most other budgets, as far as they will go, leading not only to supporting abusive industries, but to more nutrition. Obesity and other food related illness, isn't always the product of having too much to eat, but having the wrong things to available to eat.
I live in Portland and am a single educated adult. I recognize that it's a privilege I can execute my beliefs, because I have the income and community to do so.
+Biguss Dickus No.
No, it's the companies.
The food analogy is a bit redundant because that's basically what fast food companies already do.
Love that comment:)
Nice one!
+Lord Sandwich And restaurants. Most staff don't even get minimum wage without tips, which are bullshit.
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OveeSacks
U mad bro?
Are there any multi-billion dollar industries that AREN'T plagued by shoddy business practices?
+Phil Lewis
If the Citizens United ruling is anything to go by, money and legally-dubious practices go together like peanut butter and jelly in the business world.
+Phil Lewis NAN
+Felix Kütt Sorry I meant No Answer, but cpus would answer indeed with Not A Number.
The Finnish government?
Clearly not; they made a profit.
he even mentioned the issues in Bangladesh
John, I'm from Bangladesh but currently residing in United Arab Emirates!!
I love you and your show
please keep informing us about important things which we are supposed to know!!
god bless you John!!!
So you live in the UAE with a residency visa
@@ahadumer418 yes exactly
"Eat the wagon of mystery chickens" sounds like an option for punishment on a Japanese quiz show after answering a question wrong.
I have no experience or evidence to back that statement up, yet somehow it feels amazingly accurate.
That little girl is killing it with the wagon
It sounds like the start of a myth in, well, most mythologies lol
This is one of the primary reasons I buy 90% of my things second hand. No it doesn't completely avoid this problem; but it is as close as you can come really living in North America short of living in a homemade tent in the woods.
Patricia Cross Second hand is a nice half-measure when you can't reasonably do much more.
Patricia Cross I love some of the cool stuff you can pick up second hand. I used to think it was basically old torn worn clothes in second hand but the standards (in Humana for ex) are quite high for their on stand clothes. If you are a non common size in terms of body you can find some gems in there.
1 season old clothes sometimes that would of cost you +100$ you get for dirt cheap.
Patricia Cross Technically speaking, most "new" clothes are already secondhand. I've worked in clothing stores for years, especially working the fitting rooms. These are clothes worn by all kinds of bodies, and experience all kinds of wear and tear before finally being purchased. Often times, these clothes touch the floor at least 40 times before going home in your shopping bag. When I go into the thrift store, there are no fitting rooms and these items are most definitely washed and sanitized. The only real downside is the stigma. Otherwise, the clothing from the thrift store is about equal to commercial stores, if not better, in terms of quality.
YourMajesty143 Yup, after working retail I was disgusted by how many times a day I retrieved all the same clearance rack items from the fitting room, and they cannot be washed. Gross.
Patricia Cross Another option is to make your own clothes or to buy them handmade from indie brands... but then again they're more expensive, and people might not have that option.
the level of emotion in his voice makes me feel so much i can't even !!
Those stories are nothing. I remember watching a documentary about sex slavery in Asia. There was a part where women who were ex-sex slaves saved from human trafficking are placed in work program to "give them a better future". The program is huge sweatshops where they work 12 hours a day every day, and are payed 60 dollars US for a full month! There were GAP and two other brands (can't remember which ones) clothes filmed in the factory.
There were women who were running away from their "rescuers", some even to return to their pimps since what they were making wasn't enough to buy food after they pay the rent for factory owned shacks they lived in. And i do mean shacks - 4 posts joined by sheet metal with a hole for a door...
+uegvdczuVF wow. can you link me to that info?
....I got 5$ that I will feel horrible about but will be a hell of a bargain
The thing is i don't know if he would get a strike on his channel for the content of a video of that and if they could get enough viable data. But that would be an interesting video
The even sadder part is that a lot of sex slaves in Asia are under aged.
Ken the Eagle Black ppl are victims
But what's Gap's possible excuse? Seriously.
"Uhh we don't know, once a month a ship comes from a misterious land and drops some clothing here". There is no way in hell that nobody was aware of this. Specially when it happens again and again and again.
That's a good question, here is a follow up: Whats OUR EXCUSE for continuing to support this tyrannical industry. I know people who by piles of cheap clothing that they never actually wear or only wear once since. I wasn't one of those people and as a result I got made fun of through out most of middle school and high school (people stop giving a shit in college). My point is that if we, as consumers, spent a little more money on responsibility sourced clothing that we actually wear, instead of buying tons of cheap stuff, which we only wear a few times, if at all, the CEO's of these companies would be much more invested in trying to fix this issue.
It's called "plausbible deniability". Just make your supply chain long enough so you can credibly pretend that you had no idea what was going on on its far end
When I worked at Walmart in the early 2010’s while saving for college, we were required to sign a contract to start. I read it after leaving the. company (over a lawsuit for breaking OSHA law and me being in the hospital due to their errors in safety) and I realized we’d signed a contract with a clause telling us that during our duration of being employed that we couldn’t discuss child labor, prison labor, unpaid oversea’s labor, or talk about unions (even if we signed to one, we couldn’t tell anyone at work about it.)
One of the things the US needs to have soon as possible is unions. Strong unions which can press for (usable) minimum wage.
Frizzle the Cat I agree, but unions not sponsored by the company. Safeway has a union for their brands, but it lets them get away with anything. I reported them adjusting my 60 hrs a week to 30 and the union had to be taken off the schedule “to look into it” along with the other 15 people effected, then we never got our back on the schedule. After a few months the union called to say they couldn’t keep looking into because were not paying dues from “lack” of hours. The lack of hours they requested.
I’m so glad to be out of min wage work, those companies are so shady.
My boots are made in the USA, as are my Filson coats and my jeans. My vest is made in Canada. I have a scarf from Scottland and a Barbour coat from England. But I had to dry extremely hard not to buy stuff that was made overseas, since I like to buy durable goods that give people good-paying jobs. They're NOT cheap. And people will say, "I can't afford to spend that on clothes." Yes you can. If you buy a 400 dollar coat and it lasts you 15 years, it was a pretty cheap coat. If you buy an 80 dollar fast fashion coat every few months, that's one expensive coat. Buy something good and keep it in good shape. A friend of mine can't figure out why her cheap purses and clothes fall apart so fast. Well, they're cheap and made with slave labour, what do you think is going to happen? In the end you throw them out, making it a huge waste of money. Think about where your money is going and buy stuff that lasts.
+Jimmy870 You are so very right Jimmy, too bad more people don't realize this fact.
Plus, things of more expensive brands come out of fashion very slowly.
But it's still harder to plan the whole look if you know this is what you will have to wear for many years.
+Jimmy870 Just... yes.
+Jimmy870 I agree overall, but I'd like to point out that in many, many cases people legitimately can not afford anything nice. Forget the $400 coat, and forget the $80 coat as well. Far too expensive. More like, get a used coat from the thrift store for $20 and wear it until it literally falls apart, because that's what you can afford to do. The clothing industry does need a lot of work, yes, but we can't just ignore the realities of working class life, or worse, abject poverty. Most people would never be able to even consider that $400 coat.
First time I misread your post as ''My boots are made for walking" and couldn't stop laughing.
"eat this wagon of rotisserie chickens" is now my new catch phrase
It's actually "eat this wagon of mystery chickens"
This is a real eye opener. Thank you, John Oliver. You're saying what needs to be said.
Teenage Hermit did you seriously not know? just asking. its easy to figure if you think about it. Now think about every thing else you get cheap and how they get it that cheap. Makes you really start to think when you consider food and how its so cheap.
And whatever you do, don't look up KFC's chickens!
NYC, where a $46 lunch is considered suspiciously cheap.
I think you are mistaking it for *DUBAI*
It's for 5 though, so 46/5 = less than $10 which - especially for a seafood dish - is pretty suspicious...
@@thomasroberts4299 Actually... it sounds about right, veering into expensive, for some countries. I mean. 8 $ a chicken? I would definetly eat it. I could go and buy one chicken freshly killed and rostisserie'd with fresh sauce, AND a bag of chips for 4 people for 8 €... So..... yah. Not cheap. Kinda expensive, even. Flautas for 1.75 $ each? Boooy, I buy 2 for 1 €
Jesus fucking christ, where I live that's like two weeks worth of my food allowance.
Depends on where you eat. Most lunches at places like Pret a Manger or similar in NYC are between $12 and $15.
Watched this when it first aired and since then I haven't bought new clothes/ sweatshop clothes. Thanks for educating me on something I now care about a lot.
"eat this wagon of mystery chickens"- john oliver
apparently
+gus rios Considering those prices, would it be ironic if those mystery chickens actually came from Wal-Mart or not?
+gus rios Considering those prices, would it be ironic if those mystery chickens actually came from Wal-Mart or not?
+beastman 1655 "I pretend to care but I love my slave-manufactured apple products" - john oliver (www.buzzfeed.com/cat1613/slavery-never-ended-it-grew-and-got-ignored-db1p)
Look at the photos in "Where Children Sleep" and see the photo of Indira from Nepal - a child who works in a mine, she is listed as seven, but her growth has been stunted by working in a mine and in the picture she is holding a short-handled tool. The global economy that put that hand tool in that child's hand is as evil as the person who fashioned it. The face lacks all trace of hope.
Now we just need the follow-up video interviewing the CEOs to see if they enjoyed their lunches!
"Fashion - personality you can buy." That is so accurate?! Mind-BLOWN!!!
1:47 I like how the clothing that the lady says can go "from a sketch to 'the rack'" is a bra, implying something very different than what we all first imagined 😂
Why do John Oliver videos make you so depressed and happy with laughter at the same time?
I don’t know it makes u depressed knowing this stuff but happy bc u want to do something about it
It's funny, because it's true.
It is so absurd.
Art
3:33 So that's why women's pants feel like t-shirts and t-shirts feel like 2 ply tissue. :/
I hate that.
+InfiniteRandom Seriously! One good thing about the 90's was that the clothes at least were thick enough to conceal your body.
I love when I go to the store and I find what looks to be a perfectly good article of clothing- except there are too many cut-outs and revealing areas- on top of being an already sheer shirt.
Like I was at Discovery a few months ago and saw a nice button up, but for some reason, this shirt had latticecut outs on the front of the shoulder- the space between shoulder and clevage- despite having sleeves and a collar- and already being sheer.
Honestly, sometimes it feels like they just cut shit out of clothes just because its girls/young women's clothes, regardless of the actual material or practicality of the cut-out's placement.
Seriously, I feel like I'd have to buy 2 or 3 shirts to make 1 decent shirt with good coverage. If I wanted to "build" a shirt, I'd take up sewing and tailoring. (which is exactly what I'm trying to do) >.>
It seems like my options are 1) deal with clothing f*ckery and pay too many for too little 2) go to the thrift store and hope to find some clothes that are my style and somewhat modern or 3) find *more* ways to adopt male fashion into my own (their stuff is made very well, but is not really my style)
+InfiniteRandom thrift store for sure. i work at a thrift store and see high quality name brands walk out the door for 1-3 dollars. Just find one that benefits animals or some sort of good cause, those stores get donations from companies. My sisters closet donates to my store with some crazy price tags still on the new clothing.
So, Dan from CollegeHumor works on this I take it?
He was probably my favourite, and his style comes through so I'm cool with this.
***** I was wondering if someone else noticed. I checked CH Wikia (there is one for everything apparently) and it says so. Also Sarah Schneider writes for SNL now, and Jeff Rubin... works for Buzzfeed, I dunno maybe he's a boss there, but it doesn't sound like an improvement.
+crowcade And Owen Parsons works on the Daily Show.
+TheVillon77 Wikipedia says yes. Dan works on this show, he's one of the head writers.
“Average american buys 64 clothes a year actually statistical error. Trust fund babies with no other responsibilities shop on their dads credit card twice a week and should not have been counted.”
love this so much. thank you.
for 0.74 per dumpling is considered a real high price where i live. We get a dumpling that is handmade+decent filling for around 0.16 dollars.
New favorite quote… “eat this wagon of mystery chickens”… perfection
I can tell you where the chickens came from. Right here in the U.S.A. Tyson has massive chicken warehouses with chickens crammed so tight together they go crazy, live in their own shit and cant even spread their wings. East TX is full of them. Then they cram them on trucks where the crates are half their standing height so they can't stand, exposed to the elements and driven down highways to their doom. See it every day driving.
+Christopher Busch So sad.
+Christopher Busch Things like that are why i'm a vegetarian, by eating meat, you are supporting slaughter houses that horribly mistreat the animals and keep them in filthy conditions.
+Caitlyn Howlter Well, unfortunately not eating it won't change anything. We need to pass better laws and have better regulation. I am a meat eater but I dont want to see animals abused or mistreated before them are used for food. I had an idea for making cow toys and fields that have shad made by solar panels so cattle can play and have fun during their lives. When they get towards the last years of their average natural life span, they should be humanely killed for food processing. I mean, at the very least we could make them happy and comfortable during their lives.
Ahh the ironies of capitalism.
Trisha Ray yes comrade! one day we will all wear our state made clothing together in perfect harmony!
Trisha Ray not irony
b - If by that you mean deregulated clothing made in deregulated third world countries made by children chained to their tables, then I agree!
***** But if were we the child slaves, we would ask, why don't they oppose to this? Stop buying? Don't they matter about us? But we are here, on the good side, by luck of borning in some other land.
Trisha Ray Yet if you can tell me a way of changing this without screwing people out of jobs or paying a shitload of taxes for regulation be my guest.
The iPhone is now ten years old. So now the age of the people who make it
Welll they doooo say the best gifts are the ones your kids make.
what is this even supposed to imply ? Apple execs are ten ? is that meant to be like a dig at them or something ? they're like billionaires
google: apple child labor
DISMANTLE THE UNWELFARE STATE.
offbrand r/woooosh
One of the frustrating things is if you live in a small town without a lot of options, it isn't so much a matter of two garments hanging side by side and people are choosing the one made with child labor because it's a few dollars cheaper. For a lot of people it's because every single garment in every store in town is made by a company that outsourced it's production to sweatshops, or did that trick where they outsourced it to a better looking supplier that then subcontracted to a sweatshop. Your odds of finding and American made garment in a brick-and-mortar store around here feel like they're about the same as your odds of one day spotting a family of albino giraffes.
YOU ARE THE MAN JOHN OLIVER.
All of my clothes, shoes included, are falling apart.
Maybe you need to let go of dounguts
MrPensiveThinker You got cash? I got fried dough bro. How much you need?
400KrispyKremes Mine too! I wear something till it's good and dead lol
400KrispyKremes That's because they were made in Bangladesh by a subcontractor
***** My Converse All Stars?
I believe
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He's a hero of today's society. God bless you John!
Hugs from Poland!👍
so GAPs defense is that they're not corrupt, just nearly criminally incompetent?
yea, but not just GAP, most companies use the same defense
I cant afford to buy fair trade clothing so instead I circumvent the entire system and buy second hand from thrift stores. This way Im not giving these vultures money, im recycling, and proceeds go to charity.
Pursuing Ancient Paths wow that’s a really good idea for us people with limited funds to respond to the problem!
Hi John, I am from India and I wanted to point out few things related to this topic. This problem has been a big social issue faced by most of the developing nations for decades. But everyone is forgetting the root cause here, its poverty!!! No child works for amusement, he or she does not have a choice. In many of the cases, they are the sole earning member in their family. Yes, I agree child labor is a practice which needs to be abolished completely BUT the only way to do this is to make their families self-sufficient for daily basic needs and provide these kids ample opportunities to attain primary education.
This is not an easy task but considering your extensive knowledge base and fame, I wish if you could come up with an episode which creates awareness about this and brings people together to solve this big global issue.
Charge the out-sourcing companies a tariff that goes toward creating a school to which the employees go. 4 hours working, 4 hours at school. For the same daily wage. So the kids (and/or adults) at least have an opportunity to get educated.
AbsentWithoutLeaving That is not going to work, the companies will just move their sweatshops to other countries, eager for the opportunity. With the cost of labour increasing in China, many manufacturers are just moving to Southeast Asia and the subcontinent.
Callie, is there some reason you think this option would apply only to China?
No, I'm saying that if these countries impose tariffs or other duties, they will just move on to other even more desperate countries. The children working in these sweatshops will then lose their only source of income, in many cases these children's wages provide for themselves and their siblings. Education is the only thing that will allow these child-labourers to improve their lives. If I owned a clothing factory in Bangladesh or were the owner of a clothing store chain, every factory would have a school that provides meals attached to it and no child labour. This would still be cheaper than producing the clothes in a developed economy, but this is a pipe dream, companies are only interested in profits and consumers will always buy the cheaper product.
Read my original comment again. If the specific tarrif or condition is applied to ANY outsourcing of labor, then there is nowhere that companies can outsource to that won't have the same requirement. And if, as you say, it would still be cheaper to outsource rather than produce on home soil, then the companies would work with the requirement.
John Oliver is cable television awesomeness!
God bless all of the children who are employed in those deplorable sweat shops/factories.
No child on this earth should ever be exploited nor treated in such a inhumane way whatsoever!
watching more and more of these shows like john oliver and adam ruins everything just makes you feel so overwhelmingly depressed by the end of them. they really show you just how broken the world really is, and the worst part is that nothing ever comes of it. the prison system is still for profit, sweatshops are still operating, food is still wasted while people are starving...nothing will ever fucking change. people might get ignited the minute or two after the show, but without organised, consistant pressure we are so powerless and dependent on those in power to do something, and they just wont. what is seriously the point.
After watching it I found sources for clothing made in the USA. If you do the same, and other people do the same, it's working toward change.
Made in the USA unfortunately isn't much better. We have sweatshops in the US and it's called prison labor. They're paid cents per hour. If they advertise union made that's a better bet.
Enjoy!
Luckily there is a easy way to fight this problem, which is to go to thrift stores or online second hand stores like poshmark or depop.
That’s why we have to get the government involved.
it was weird to watch the last minute of this video after watching the episode on food waste
Don't worry, all of it was shipped to the CEOs and owners of the companies. At least, i think it was.
+kmisi1
I was thinking the same thing!! Hopefully they fed it to the interns?
okio0uh gd Ax+d a 1st 5p1
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Is it bad that I actually want to eat all of that food at the end?
(Well, maybe not the expired seafood...)
***** The rotisserie chickens looked pretty delicious.
I'm worried about what has been done to them though, that little girl is not to be trusted.
***** But did a little girl with a suspicious smile deliver them to you?
***** But the jeans are the best part!
Tree Bark Eat her too?
Superpotatosama Eat who? The little girl? Never! My pallet is to forever be clean, and her evil will only soil it.
Some guy commented something stupid, and I joke, and now he deleted his comment. Makes me look crazy :(
As someone who makes clothes I really appreciate this episode
The iPhone is now ten years old. So now the age of the people who make it
Oh cool!! Any tips for someone interested in learning how to make clothes? Idk where to start haha
Ultimately, it comes down to values...Consignment shops or thrift stores are relatively cheap...so I mix and match that way. And use my own creativity to update those looks. Then I save money to buy higher quality, locally sourced items if I am in need. I only buy clothes maybe once or twice a year - so I save a great deal of money that way too and feel "environment-ish". Avoid big malls and go into cool homegrown boutiques. Fashion is more fun that way anyways!
Sophie N Great ideas Sophie, I’m a thrift shop and e-bay kinda gal myself.
Was that... The Gurewich!?
***** Yes. It was indeed The Beef.
***** *Gurewitch
***** I had the same reaction and then I exclaimed "omg, it's is Dan!" all the while everybody else in the house are asleep.
I miss seeing him on videos.
***** Den?!
***** ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
While watching this I was thinking., damn we're terrible. Than I realized the shirt and pants I'm wearing are the same pair I've had since 7th grade... 5 years ago. Suddenly don't feel as bad, but am questioning how the hell these clothes are in one piece
Lmao same here, mate
I still wear stuff from 14 years ago. A t-shirt dress from kindergarten is a t-shirt now.
anthony longoria Your mother is a good shopper. You should thank her!
I’ve got a winter coat that is more than 30 years old. If one can, one should either invest in a really well-made piece of clothes, made by a local dressmaker or tailor-which is expensive. But if it’s taken care of carefully, it can last for decades.
How do they even still fit!? Like, at all? Well, I suppose if they were super-oversized when you bought them, but, still, I can’t believe you can still even put them on! In my senior year of high school, there was not a whole lot from 7th grade that I could even put onto my body, and even fewer items that would cover all of what needs to be covered without cutting off circulation, breathing, and normal movement. (I’m pretty sure 7 + 5 = 12, but if I finger-counted wrong, you can tell me.)
Ms3queen Some people (like me) are short and don’t grow much. My mom was able to not spend alot of money on clothes for me because I was a small thin child and if she got it a size or two bigger I could wear it 2-3 years whereas my little bro went through clothing like crazy. I basically stopped growing around 7-8th grade and I still own and wear a large t-shirt I was given at school in 7th grade, its now been 9 years.....Shit I just realized I’m wearing it right now as a pajama top....
Thank you John Oliver. Respect from Bangladesh
Will you be satisfied if GAP and others close their sweatshops for good leaving those workers behind?
They go into it in detail in the documentary "The true Cost"
Its ALOT more horrible than you guys think
LOOOVE JOHN n his SO to the point critical yet funny shows! The whole world should watch n learn from them. 👍👍🏻👍🏼👍🏽👍🏾👍🏿
John Oliver tried speaking with a Swedish accent, my life is complete. XD
John Oliver's Swedish accent sounds the same as John Oliver's Dutch accent. Just turn S's into Sh sounds!
+Simeon R
I felt it was Dutch as well, haha. Did he ever dó a Dutch accent in the show? Or did I miss that?
I think he's done it once or twice, but I can't recall the exact episodes. But he's done it *at least* once, and it was this precise accent!
*Schwedish
“Eat this wagon of mystery chickens”
Things i never thought i’d hear
1100 people died? Where's their never forget rhetoric and why don't they get a rememberence day?
30 european people die to a terrorist attack - give them a rememberance day, a minute of silence, new safety patrols a social reform and everybody is (at least trying to be) looking sad and whine how cruel the world is
1100 third world country people die in a factory that was probably built shittily doing their work because of lack of security - nobody gives a fuck
well i think one of the reasons nobody gives a shit about deaths over there is the fact that they breed and multiply like rabbits anyway. despite all the deaths and all their population exponentially grow out of control and for each death there is 5 to 10 fold newborns which makes the value of human life insignificant. sounds a bit harsh but thats the truth.
Efe Sezer no, it’s absolutely not. The reason WE don’t have holidays is because they aren’t citizens of our countries, and we don’t know them. The US has no holidays as a result of terror attacks in any country aside from the US. The people in those countries were devastated by these deaths, and the reason there was no holiday is because their governments are often corrupt, and their living conditions are so bad that 1100 deaths can feel inevitable.
Our house is built on a foundation of bone and decorated with flesh.
Brian R. bad architect or awesome architect?
ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ I'm worried about the infrastructure.....
Robo-Brinks After all, it's not very sexy...
***** I love VTMB, too!!!!
unfortunately, i dont think the solution is simple. the problem is: even if we changed the system over night and all the clothes would be produces in the same country they are being sold in, the cost of clothing would rise and therefore would become much more unaffordable. so we would have to go several steps further, reforming things including minimum wage, taxing the rich, and closing tax loopholes (just to name a few), in order to really solve the problem. because the probem isnt that we dont want to spend more money on clothing, its that more often that not, we cant. i have literally 1 pair of jeans and they have ripped last week and i am gonna have to go out and buy new ones which i am procrastinating because it is a financial burden for me. and until rich people pay their share nothing is going to change.
Small problems compared to the one that would be solved. You think children should spend their childhood working I facilities that may potentially kill them just because you can't afford a 60$ pair of jeans(which I don't believe for one second) and really need the 25$ price tag. Get a fucking heart.
+Alexandro Hutt
no thats not what im saying. im saying that by solving this problem you would create another. and this is also the reason why people arent so hot on solving it, because people are opportunistic by nature. they will rather accept a problem they can live with, than solve the problem so nobody has to live with it. thats why they would rather come home from work and consume shit than face the fact that 1% of the world controls 99%. i guess what im really saying is that people are shit.
Obi Wan Kenobi Then I understand your point, it almost sounded like you were trying to justify the fact that children work as slaves just to get cheap cloating. It's a same that people are so afraid of solving anything these days, just a hundred years ago we would kill a politicians of the were wasting human lives like they do today.
there is one more point in this: take that job from those kinds and they most likely going to starve to death
"until rich people pay their share nothing is going to change." Trump? I think you mean Bernie.
I would love to be in a financial situation where I thought $19 and $30 were cheap clothes. I have to buy $ and $7 clothes (at wal mart) because that is the only thing affordable.
shop at Goodwill, the Salvation Army, or a local consignment shop.You may even be able to MAKE money if the consignment shop buys your old clothes
@@vtgirl155 don't support the salvation army
Hey, The clothes should be durable, price doesn't matter. I know how it feels but it's an image created by society. Affordable doesn't mean cheap.
Goodwill is great, I was able to buy 4 shirts that I like for $7 total. Some of them weren’t even on sale.
@@vtgirl155 Nope. Don't support Goodwill either! Look up their rating as a "charity." What they donate vs what they keep (their executives, president, etc). They're a bonafide business now.
I thought i was gonna go to sleep but i can stay up for this.
Same, gonna probably miss the school bus this morning. Ugh the things I do for John Oliver
296gaming1
It's morning here, in Russia. I'm happy about new video with John, but i'm not happy at all about things i've learned from it.
296gaming1 Funny. I too was ready to shut off the computer when this video dropped into my sub list
EAT THIS WAGON OF MYSTERY CHICKENS.
i could go for a wagon of mystery chickens right now
+Emily Rose Eat them, eat that wagon of mystery chickens
I love hearing John Oliver. Cause he says what I can't =') All the Love from Bangladesh ♡🇧🇩🌸🤍💕
I never thought any human could talk for nearly 20 minutes and make it actually interesting!
Flowerstar 5 there's really good lectures on TH-cam that are less "entertaining" than this and are up to an hour long. I think....you might have a short attention span
I was surprised as well, but all of this videos are worth watching and spreading.
How has everyone missed the fact that he actually supported sweat shops buy purchasing those clothes for the children modeling "food" at the end of the episode?
+Jennifer Hackler Right???? Seriously...
I have a shirt that repeats "I will not come home drunk" over and over, getting worse as it goes (I wina dunk hom brump)
That shirt is almost old enough to buy its own alcohol 🤣
EAT THIS WAGON OF MYSTERY CHICKENS
They go to a extremely poor city and pay them peanuts to manufacture something by the thousands, while their ceo swims in a pool of money like scrooge mcduck. What a delight!
Eat that wagon of mystery chickens!
Arshy Don't forget about the flautas as well.
Crazy Luigi those were taquitos from 7-11... thats 'murican enough
7-11 isn't 'murican though. It's a Japanese company.
Arshy I love me some mysterious cock!
Yeah I can't really afford to not buy cheap clothing, but most of my clothes I get second hand, so at least I'm not giving my money to the people making it
A lot of department stores outsource the production of clothes to cheap factories, and pass them off as "mistakes" and such. To keep picking on GAP, they admit that 100% of their clothes in their department stores are made specifically for that store. While roughly an estimated 98% of clothes in other second hand and department stores are also outsourced and follows that same business practice.
Exactly. I've had a pair of jeans I paid 65 bucks for that have lasted me over 4 years. I'm by no means well off financially, but saving for more expensive clothing has actually saved me money in the long run. I've bought cheap jeans before and even the best pair lasted me maybe a year. Seams are just so weak on cheap pairs. Even in the best circumstance that's still 80 bucks spent over 4 years.
Of course, and many people have the problem, that their wages do not allow them to buy expensive clothes. But that shows the interconnection between poor people. If there would not be a cheap way to get dressed decently, you would go to your job in rags. If you would go to your job in rags, you and others would demand higher wages to get dressed decently. It's a chain of exploitation.
Natalie Long. "I get [my clothes] second hand, so at least I'm not giving my money to the people making it," lol that's not how economics work. You take second hand clothing, so the people who gave you their clothes will have to buy new clothes. And they'll get their new clothes from... can you guess? companies that have horrible labor practices in foreign countries. So you're still a part of this. Not to say you're a terrible person (I do the same thing), just saying you haven't wiped your hands clean if that's what you think.
We need a good ol' fashion boycott (pun not intended but very welcome)
DEPOP! EBAY! GOODWILL!
Second hand clothes are cheap and cruelty free.
No. They aren't.
Goodwill is absolutely terrible. Not only are they ridiculously selective of WHERE they set up shop, but then they're almost like dictators in trying to strangle donations out of other, you guessed it, poor neighborhoods. They're some of the worst offenders in pretending to do good when they're really not. Also...just because you bought a GAP shirt from someone else (for example), it doesn't magically change how that shirt was made. The cruelty is still there because the person you bought the shirt from still purchased it from the original distributor. Don't get me wrong, I love thrift stores. But let's not say the grass is greener simply because we're standing on that particular side of the fence.
'Maybe not cruelty free, but , uh, less cruel? If Lalo buys a shirt at the GAP and when bored with it, donates it, and then Moana buys the shirt at a thrift, there is definitely a reduction in cruelty. Do the math - If both of them bought their shirts new at GAP, that would be buying two shirts from the cruel brand. At least this way, GAP only scores one purchase, the charity scores some $$, and Moana still gets a shirt. It's greater good for a greater amount of people.
Woah, chill dude. I wasn't trying to make anyone feel bad. The system is what it is, we have to get our clothes from somewhere. Hell I love thrift stores. But don't sit and pretend that thrift shops solve it either, that's an even worse idealistic bubble because you ignore the problem while making yourself feel better. This isn't something that will magically change in a day or a year.
Hey that was Dan Gurewitch!
1.75usd a flauta is PREPOSTEROUSLY expensive.
Source: I'm Mexican.
I thought the same. Way more expensive than 3 flautas outside any Mexico City subway station.
I think that was the cost of the entire tray.
Is it per Flauta or a plate price?
@@geministargazer9830 per plate would me more reasonable, if the plate had at least 4 flautas.
Meanwhile, a dress from DOLCE & GABBANA cost more than a yr's tuition... is it not sad that those who depend on such cheap/child labour are the poorer public themselves?
That’s why we need to start ripping the ultra elite out of their luxury homes and putting the blade to their throats
Your option, and mine: Buy mid-range priced clothes while they're on sale.
It's so simple, buy quality products, know where they come from, if you want it cheaper: buy second hand. If you buy at the right place you can easily afford even designer pieces. Clothes are an Investment, not a throw-away product.
I eagerly wait for the new video every Sunday and can't go to sleep without watching!! :)
Gap, worn by kids, made by kids.
Worked in the export market for 17 years.and thank you for making this.
Oh what a beautiful dress, good catch! That'll be $10 and 1/3 of your soul. You need a receipt?
On a side note... in what universe is Zara cheap?
In a world where people have jobs.
Lol Zara is so expensive
in the 1st world with minimum wages of 20$ and more.
In Europe Zara is considered "cheap", although I would say that in the past 7 years they've definitely gone up. There are a few cheaper stores - H&M, C&A, Primark in England, etc... but even those aren't much cheaper, except for a few items which they sell for cheap (for example the 5€ H&M dress mentioned in the video). If you compare a women's jacket at Zara and pretty much any other cheap clothing store, there might be a 10€ difference but that's about it (40-60 euros for a jacket at Zara depending on the fabric and style... you can probably find comparable jackets for 30-40 at some other stores although the material will not be the same and the cut may or may not be as good. You may pay 20 euros if you are lucky, but I haven't found that yet in stores that cater to adults (ie. not geared towards teens/early 20s).
If you live in the US you probably consider Zara to be fairly expensive, in part due to the abondance of cheap cheap clothing stores (Target clothes, Walmart...). The US clothing market is in general cheaper than in Europe.
Also, I know I said Zara is "cheap" and I can buy a 40-60 euro jacket there... I hope you understand that many/most Europeans don't really consider that cheap and don't go out and buy several jackets for each season. On average, Europeans buy fewer clothes than Americans. I would say many of my friends have about 2 weeks worth of clothes in their closets... maybe less. I own about that much. (of course, this varies a lot and also varies by country... Spaniards own more clothes on average)
john oliver....the social warrior ranting for a better world!!!!
For the Last 15 years, I had resorted to buying good quality 2nd hand stuff, which are costly sometimes but worth it!
A question that bares asking though is why is the situation so desperate that those kids are lying about their age so that they can work at the sweat shops as if it's an opportunity rather than exploitation?
+Andy Wolf I assume they don't have a choice, either that or nothing.
+Andy Wolf Opportunities and exploitation always go hand in hand. They are not forced to work there but that's not what exploitation means anyway. They live in such miserable circumstances that they practically have no choice than to work for small wages, very long hours in work conditions that can damage their health or even kill them.
What would happen if first world countries would stop producing there? I don't know for sure. Maybe local businesses would have a competitive chance? I'm pretty sure we do them no favor by exploiting their workforce and their children.
+MrMula81 : I'm from India and the problem is the exploding population.Bangladesh, India are some countries with huge population densities.People despite being poor will breed like litter and have 7-8 kids per family. This despite the fact that they know they shall never be able to provide these kids with education or any kind of future. Left to their own devices, these children have to work just to get by. Naturally they suffer the ill effects but I guess that is their fate.
+bejewelled That is not their fate. Change has to be made.
+bejewelled Exactly. These morons need to stop having 10 kids per family. It's their own fault. Religion also needs to stop telling people that contraception is wrong, too. I think providing contraception to poor countries would add up and ultimately reduce poverty because of overpopulation, etc..
I think the illustration at the end is lacking some impact because maybe John is too rich to know what truly sketchy cheap food even is. All of those prices seemed reasonable to me. Costco sells rotisserie chickens for $4.99 and they're good. That illustration was a nice idea, but he should have had someone on a more average-to-low income decide what was 'so cheap it must be disgusting/dirty'.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing while watching. Honestly, some of this stuff seemed way to expensive, especially for my budget. 46 dollars for shrimp? Like, damn. 😂
I think it's because he was probably calling it dirt cheap for the rich CEOs, who he stated were richer than oil field owners. They'd never buy a rotisserie chicken that cost $5. For the CEOs, stuff like Costco and Walmart is something they'd spurn the way they spurn a rabid dog. Idk but just giving him the benefit of the doubt for being the woke, awesome comedian he is.
I mean you’re absolutely right, but the rich CEOs won’t know that
Lol 100% agree with this, everyone knows those greasy little taco roll things are a dollar at 7 11
I think the worst thing we heard about in all of this is Common being made to rhyme "in the hood" with "in the hood" _with "in the hood"._ Now THAT is a labor abuse.
I very rarely buy clothes, why? Because I have no real "style", I buy what is comfortable, will last and do not care what others would think of this. The fact I know people who buy crap almost every day clothing wise just, why?
As a Bangladeshi I agree with every sentence he said about Bangladesh. I know about the practice of child labour in my country. I am ashamed. But it is reality. This is like a perpetual cycle. Rich gets richer. Poor gets poorer. It's a continues cycle.
I sew many of my clothes. I plan to improve my skills (with the support of a friend) so I can sew almost everything. It's cheap and lasts long. I cannot stand the main stream fashion. It's boring. I want to like my clothes. Cause they got to reflect my very own personality. Not a persona someone else wants to inflict on me.
Sewing myself, I second this.
Additionally it does give a sense to compare the prices on the market.
Whenever I see a bag now, I think "wow, that price does not even cover all the zippers in there" making this would be triple money just for material.
Oh yeah, I've started my sewing journey last year, after having sworn off fast fashion two years ago. It really amazes me how easy it is to put gigantic pockets in my pants and skirts. But yeah. Let's slowly break the fast fashion industry and feel like our true selves in whatever wacky clothing we make and love!
0:12 Dan Gurewitch!!!
I KNOW RIGHT
hes a writer for the show
Does he like work at Last Week Tonight now? I saw him in other photos too.
Oznerol I came when I saw that
He does, yeah. Watch the episode of Jake and Amir's podcast with him in it, he talks a bit more about his part in the show
Great expose', and people care, but you should give us a sensible avenue to actually affect change. I'm sitting here thinking I don't know the difference between a garment made in a factory with no fire saftey, or made by a childs hand, by looking at the garment, or one that actually benefits the industry of a progressing nation without exploitation or saftey concerns, I mean it's not like it's on the label! I have a limited income and time, what do I do as a regular consumer! Tell us that and people will jump on board otherwise we just watch this video and go on to the next one full of depressing facts.
+No Thanks I buy most of my clothes from charity shops. Don't you have them in the US? It's a great way of supporting charities and not profiting companies that enslave it's workers, as well as getting cheap and often very good quality clothes.
+No Thanks actually if you use google and do some research before you go out and buy, you can fidn companies that either a)manafacture where you live or b) don't treat workers in developing countries like garbage
One easy thing we all can do is - buy less clothes. Let's not buy clothes just because it's on sale or it's just 4 bucks with free shipping. We can pledge to buy clothes only when we need it. I decided to do 0 shopping last 6 months and it feels wonderful.