Originally Posted by delicious
Some opinions are more right than others. The fact is, npoak, that the free market sweatshop-defense arguments you're echoing have been ripped apart in countless peer-reviewed academic papers through the years. Working in an advertising agency in Times Square, it doesn't surprise me that this is news to you - you're personally invested, surrounded by an ad culture that needs to justify it's role in the global economy.
It's pretty ironic that you've been calling what I'm saying "empty rhetoric" and accusing me of having a "simple worldview." My "opinions" about sweatshops are based on an academic (near)consensus - what are yours?
Dude, we've most likely read the same "academic papers". We just seem to disagree on the meaning of them. My company is in advertising, but I don't work in it...
There is a large amount of rhetoric written favoring each side of the argument here. You are going to believe whatever side favors your ideals/agenda at the total exclusion of the other.
Regardless, you are entitled to your opinion. If Nike offends you....don't buy their product. You control it with your money.