Comments on: Chicken’s Chuff Chuesday #17

By: Gobble de Gook

Gobble de Gook — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:45:33 +0000

Yup, dollar a day probably is a good wage in India. And there’s Bollywood billionaires there to make Europeans look 3rd world. But but but, it’s not how far what you earn goes, it’s what you have to do to get it. 30K a bad wage? For doing just what exactly?

By: Peterorange

Peterorange — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:28:02 +0000

I feel sick

By: Setyourfacestostunned

Setyourfacestostunned — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:08:34 +0000

In memory of the dearly departed and sadly missed George Carlin:

“CHICKENS ARE GOOD PEOPLE - you don’t here of a chicken coming home after a hard day in the farmyard and smacking his hen about do ya!”

By: Nelson

Nelson — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:03:43 +0000

Nope. I’m afraid it’s produced in Nottingham, where we all get shot most days.

By: I only asked!

I only asked! — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:58:54 +0000

Is this website maintained by third world child labour or £30k Londoners?

By: The Gnome Secretary

The Gnome Secretary — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:00:16 +0000

that bbc doc revealed that wages were between 60p and £2 per day, if they worked all the hours god sends) to send home to their families to pay for their kids’ education, so that maybe the kids might get a better life.

Not to mention that the great attraction of immigration is this huge wage disparity.

The rising price of fuel will also have an effect on globalisation. It will soon be cheaper to produce tat at home than abroad, this will pressure suppliers to concentrate on technology to reduce costs (instead of just going where the labour is cheapest).

Hopefully when technology like RepRap matures everyone will be able to have their own mini-factory to produce fucking tat for them. Then comrades, the age of scarcity will be over, and we’ll all be able to chill in our new socialist utopia.

Sorry, the above is total bollocks, but I enjoyed writing it.

Checking again: yep, D is still a gnu’s gonad.

By: lisa simpson

lisa simpson — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:24:12 +0000

^ oh, and in the electronics industry in the case of china, and i’m sure there are others too…

By: lisa simpson

lisa simpson — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:23:40 +0000

and, may i add to that last comment, it’s not about advocating stopping family income, it’s not about advocating removing jobs from places where people desperately need to earn. what it should be about is making changes in the fashion industry so that in such places families can earn a living wage (at least) without having to labour for 20 hours a day, sleep on the floor of the factory, work in highly unsanitary conditions all so they can get a pittance (that bbc doc revealed that wages were between 60p and £2 per day, if they worked all the hours god sends) to send home to their families to pay for their kids’ education, so that maybe the kids might get a better life.

i can’t understand how anyone could possibly see striving for that as a bad thing.

By: hope

hope — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:20:24 +0000

oh the humanity

By: Cycloon

Cycloon — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:00:02 +0000

I don’t think we’d advocate removing a family income. Just that the family income shouldn’t rely on exploitative and morally dubious supply chains.