New Nike Commercial

[Kraig]

NOTE: 2.5mb download.

http://netnews.iwant-news.com/2003/0...ov20030114.mpg

[krisamata]

i love how nike can afford to pay someone in their commercial up to $100 million but can't offer decent wages to the KIDS in their sweatshops.

sigh

[Dean]

oh man!... TRANSFORMERS RULE!

[Lunch Box]

hey one things true those are talented fucking 5 year olds

[-ff-]

Originally posted by krisamata
i love how nike can afford to pay someone in their commercial up to $100 million but can't offer decent wages to the KIDS in their sweatshops.

sigh

Well, they can. They just don't want to. Which is much worse.

[rawb]

Originally posted by krisamata
i love how nike can afford to pay someone in their commercial up to $100 million but can't offer decent wages to the KIDS in their sweatshops.

sigh

unless you've never eaten a banana, liked someone's diamond earrings, worn 80% of the clothes out there or filled up a car with gas shut the fuck up, you uppity dumbass.

[-ff-]

Originally posted by rawb


unless you've never eaten a banana, liked someone's diamond earrings, worn 80% of the clothes out there or filled up a car with gas shut the fuck up, you uppity dumbass.

There is a pretty big difference between being complicit in an act, and commiting an act yourself.

[rawb]

so, do as i say, not as i buy?

[-ff-]

No, more like "try to do what you think is right." As a Western consumer you can't escape being surrounded by the products of inequitable trade, but you can try and make informed choices. And you should. Those choices will have an indirect effect. Recognizing how our habits affect other people is a pretty good start, I'd say, if only a start.

But as, say, Phil Knight your choices have a direct one to one effect on the lives of thousands or millions of people, and it is those choices (maximizing profit over employee welfare) that harm a lot of people. And so old Phil there DOES carry a much higher proportion of blame.

Thats why we shouldn't "shut the fuck up."

[rawb]

Phil Knight uses sweatshop labour because it is the easiest and cheapest way to keep within budget while getting high quality goods.

I buy brand name things because it's the cheapest and easiest way to keep within budget while buying quality goods.

i dont see a difference, really. our convenience trumps the sorrow's of people we cant see. just a smaller scale.

[krisamata]

Originally posted by rawb


unless you've never eaten a banana, liked someone's diamond earrings, worn 80% of the clothes out there or filled up a car with gas shut the fuck up, you uppity dumbass.

im just saying its sad
and i try my best to stay away from places that i know are doing this sort of thing, i cant stay away from all of them.

and i know its a horrible catch 22 cause if people stop buying the clothes then the kids in those countries are out of work and then they're families will starve....

all im saying is its just fucking sad.

[-ff-]

Originally posted by rawb
Phil Knight uses sweatshop labour because it is the easiest and cheapest way to keep within budget while getting high quality goods.

I buy brand name things because it's the cheapest and easiest way to keep within budget while buying quality goods.

i dont see a difference, really. our convenience trumps the sorrow's of people we cant see. just a smaller scale.

You know, its so much worse that you recognize the consequences of your actions and say "who the fuck cares, its not harming me!" than if you were one of those dumb shits out there who consumes endlessly because they don't know any better.

[SEAN!]

those kids are glad to have those jobs anyway.


they only look bad to people like ourselves who have enough wealth to be granted the oppurtunity to chose their employment situation.

i lve consuming endlessly but people in european sweatshops make most of my clothes

[Josie]

i want tranforming shoes like those! lol

[Rhianna]

i don't like nike

[frogprincess]

Originally posted by krisamata
i love how nike can afford to pay someone in their commercial up to $100 million but can't offer decent wages to the KIDS in their sweatshops.

sigh

i am sure that nike loves that $30 usd is a decent wage in some developing countries.

[kiMMie]

This one is super old :c-tard: I think I posted this one last year

[u_kno_it]

Originally posted by babi-xtc
i want tranforming shoes like those! lol

Same here I think I kno where to get a pair from babi-xtc , I'll tell yah when I get myself a pair so hush hush k hehehe...

[rawb]

Originally posted by -ff-


You know, its so much worse that you recognize the consequences of your actions and say "who the fuck cares, its not harming me!" than if you were one of those dumb shits out there who consumes endlessly because they don't know any better.

yeah but not by very much.

worse atrocities happen in the produce section at save-on then will ever happen at fucking niketown. nike is just the popular left wing whipping boy.

[LaMzWeLL]

that was pretty sweet

[got_rice]

at least its not reebok.. reebok makes the worst shoes