Originally Posted by
Moski
The problem I see with that model is this. You are Starting at a stratospheric level in pricing.
How much do you make an hour? Should a child in Vietnam be forced to work for 10¢ an hour because you don't think shoemakers should make a working wage? *
How is a pair of shoes that cost $15.00 to make better than a pair that cost $8.00 to make?
People who've never tasted, or developed a taste for rib eye are inevitably the most zealous in their defense of "mystery meat" hamburger.
I shop at WalMart as well as Neiman-Marcus.
Some things in life...some experiences in life...are worth savouring and treasuring. A man can be so parsimonious that his whole life becomes crabbed.
*No offense intended, just that we all tend to think the wages that we are paid are justified...even if we are digging a ditch and that the wages others are paid are exorbitant even if they are brain surgeons.
Cheap shoes, cheap kilts...same same...one way or the other they are made possible in our society by exploiting poor people in other countries
Last edited by DWFII; 9th July 11 at 07:17 AM.
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