BACK OFF A BIT!
You too, have, by this time, seen it in print. That, of course, does not attest to the truth of the statement at all. Be it alleged or real, however, it does cause questioning and comments.
Is it true the item urges us to ask, that Michael Jordon receives much more payment from ”Niki” than the total amount of the payroll of all of their Asiatic employees?
If such a thing is accurate; if it is true, it should shock many people to know such a fact is valid. If it is not true that fact it suggests that it ought to made clear out of simple fairness to Jackson and others.
Initially,, we will think of it as being huge sum, but then, if we look into the average wages paid to Asiatic workers it might not seem quite so excessive Even, then it would seem excessive and wrong to many people. I is, perhaps, unwise to think about a change if which the workers are granted more pay, when we realize that on cannot condemn individual offenders when we know they are not the only ones using such a tactic. In many cases they are paying typical wages in keeping with the economy of the nation in which they are located. To upset that delicate balance would be chaotic in some nations.
The main reason we have moved just about all of our manufacturing capabilities overseas, is based on the fact that they can make such products at far less cost. The unquestioned basis of that cost saving is to be found in the low wages paid workers. There are other reasons for lower production costs: government regulations, work place safety features, and systems of health care and hospital case when needed. If any, or all of these benefits can be cut or eliminated, the production costs can be lowered.
Rather than causing needless commotion on that side, we might do well to study our own needs and desires to see if we actually need many of the things we buy - made by less fortunate workers around the world the world whom we do not even known. We, at times a buy several of such items because they are less expensive than our own versions used to be.
It is time, perhaps, we might worry less about what Michael Jackson might or might not be getting get for advertising such products for us. Higher apparently, but minus, no doubt, far more percentage commissions eating away at such a stated figure than we might imagine, before the eventual payment is made to the entertainer's account. It probably tallies out like lawyer's fees in large class action suits.
It might also be time be time for us to reassess the values we place on such entertainment personalities to advertise such products. For Michal Jackson to receive more than all the Nike workers in Asia, seems a bit too strong, and it may well be it is one of the many such reports put out - some such reports put out - many by Jordon himself, it is claimed - to attract attention by reciting such versions of his weird ways.
Don't be too ready to condemn the foreign worker's ways or be concerned about is poverty and needs. After all, we put many of them in that position. and we, by our purchases, often keep them there.
A.L.M. September 28, 2003 [c540wds]
