It’s devestating on how these people suffer so much, and their the hard workers.

Wow, what an amazing doc. Loved the Rage Against The Machine sound track. Knight is a pig. I’ll never buy Nike again

The American way is not about Democracy.  It’s about Capitalism, Greed and exploitation.  Hence the Occupy movement as Americans wake up to their foolishness.  The workers are paid the lowest wage they will accept and the customers are charged the highest price they will pay. 

e.e. An Apple computer costs about twice as much as it’s competitor mainly because it has a brand name.  And stupid people are addicted to buying brands mostly so they can look good.

The American way is about fighting your way to the top at the expense of all else even, in some cases, your friends.  When an American says “Have a nice day”  I’m not sure he/she really means it.

BTW my nephew in Indonesia earns $150 a month working for Macdonalds which is equivalent to about $750 as the cost of living is about 1/fifth to 1/tenth of the cost of living in the west for a very modest lifestyle in Indonesia.  It’s a pretty good wage and he is the top earner in his family.

Western lower classes are finding it difficult to find work as they are far too expensive to employ.  esp. in America.  And now America is imploding in all it’s dept.

They’re obviously idealists and they seem to believe what they say, but they were in no way living ‘like Indonesians’. Naturally the conditions were unbearable to a middle class American couple.  For working class Indonesians, the conditions are good.  Yes, the hours are long, but the productivity is low, with breaks for prayers which workers in other countries don’t enjoy.  Those girls earn enough to enjoy a better standard of living than the villages they come from, eat out once a month at what they consider to be a fancy restaurant (MacD’s) and they send money back to their families.  If the unions get into the factory demanding better conditions, the whole industry will be closed and those workers will be unemployed (as happened a few years previously to the garment industry in Bandung).  I know this because I worked in Jakarta for a few years, including some time in a shoe factory in Tanggerang.
The real issue revealed by this doco is the pollution caused by the factory not properly disposing of its waste.  I think those Americans should have concentrated in that instead of bitching about how hot and humid it was while they sat in the direct sunlight (something no Indonesian would willingly do – no wonder they got sick).

Never buy nike´s product… that`s it… you know that you don`t need his shit to live.