One of my friends suggested the the couple in my past post were just ignorant, which is a valid reaction.  I have definitely been swept away in the excitement of buying cheap socks or earphones, and would prefer to think I was uninformed rather than a bad person. Yet, everyone knows about sweatshops, and it isn’t rocket surgery to connect the concept of sweatshop with a $4 T-shirt, so why are we as a society claiming ignorance  being wilfully negligent celebrating sweatshop culture?
Here is a brilliant video by Annie Leonard explaining the implications of cheap stuff.
wow!This should be be mandartory viewing for everyone. It really captures and clarifies an absoloutly disgraceful side of what our socioty had become.