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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe if we started buying stuff made in America (or any country with an established history of paying workers a living wage.)  Then maybe those folks making a living wage would be willing to make a product they cared about.  No more crappy shoes, clothes, furniture, kitchenware, etc...[/quote]

Unfortunately it doesn't work that way. I'm an economist. As a manufacturer, if you spend more on labor, you will need to spend less on other inputs like the fabric, design and tailoring, if you still want to make a profit. Clothing manufacturers will only charge what the market will bear. Sure, there's a market for higher-priced clothing made out of natural fabrics, even made out of organic cotton, fair trade-produced fabrics, designer dresses, and so on. But that tends to be a smaller segment of the clothing market and, as we've seen, there's apparently a huge market for polyester clothes which means you can buy 2 dresses for the same $200 you might spend on a single quality dress.

And you don't want to get the anti union poster(s) started about how unions have wrecked Detroit, public schools, and would now wreck the clothing industry. Never mind the Triangle fire.....[/quote]

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