Why is everyone mad at Nike and lebron James for the $300 shoes?

[Anonymous]

http://www.fox8live.com/story/19345971/urban-league-says-dont-buy-new-high-tech-sneakers

Again, it's all about personal responsibility. We all know the demographic that stands outside at 12am waiting for footlocker to open to buy these shoes and yet the complain about high unemployment in the community. God created free will for a reason.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBYQ-P4bdco&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[Anonymous]

Sure, but what's wrong with a guy offering his opinion about the value of a product? Is it so offensive to suggest that a company consider the ethics of its product decisions?

[Anonymous]

Nike makes the sneakers for about $5 by using Asian slave labor that gets paid $1/month. Then sells the sneakers for $300 while kids in the ghetto shoot each other for them. While all this happens, Phil Knight, the Nike chairman grows his billions.

We, the American people, are the idiots who allow this to happen. If people didn't buy these shoes, this sick cycle of capitalism would collapse.

[Anonymous]

i dont think anyone is "mad" just more so amazed at the price for a pair of basketball shoes.

folks should visit neiman marcus if they want to be alarmed at the price of pair of sneakers. i guess the difference there is that those shoes arent marketed to children like these lebron shoes are.

plus, you can get the "less expensive" version of the lebron shoe if you arent that interested in having the 300 pair tell you how high you jump

[Anonymous]

You must not have teenage sons, because I can tell you - even though I am black and the perception is that only the black kids want the shoes, the white teenage boys are DYING to have them too. All the moms are suffering at Footlocker - trust me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nike makes the sneakers for about $5 by using Asian slave labor that gets paid $1/month. Then sells the sneakers for $300 while kids in the ghetto shoot each other for them. While all this happens, Phil Knight, the Nike chairman grows his billions.

We, the American people, are the idiots who allow this to happen. If people didn't buy these shoes, this sick cycle of capitalism would collapse.

First of all they get paid $100 a month but the term "slave" invokes the rounding up of these Asians, putting them on a boat and forcing them to work at the factory. They work in these factories because it's a better life than working on the farms.

By the way I know most of you hate capitalism, and you focus on the man that had the brains and foresight to create Nike, but you forget the hundreds of thousands of employees, their kids who got sent to college due to their parents Nike salary, the millions he's given to Oregon, the pensioners who have owned the stock etc etc. Again, we all have free will. Control your children. Set goals and expectations early. If you teach your kids it's ok to spend all their money on a pair of shoes that do nothing for them athletically instead of working in the gym to better their game then YOU have failed as a parent not Phil Knight.