This Vending Machine Sold T-Shirts For Only 2 Euros, But Nobody Wanted To Buy Them
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A non-profit named Fashion Revolution has created a wonderful social experiment that has challenged people to reconsider how they shop for their clothes. A vending machine they set up in Berlin offers passers-by shirts for only 2 Euro (roughly $2.19), but there was an unexpected catch… they first had to watch a video about the exploited sweatshop laborers that make cheap clothes possible.
The video was released on April 24th or Fashion Revolution Day. This day commemorates the collapse of the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh in 2013, which killed more than 1,000 garment workers who had been making clothing for American brands in an unsafe work environment. The workers at such factories are often underage, and most are also underpaid and overworked since the labor laws there are practically non-existent. Fashion Revolution wants to encourage people to start asking questions about the morality of their clothes, like where they were made and under what conditions they were made.
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This vending machine in Berlin offered to sell t-shirts for only 2 Euros
Seems like a bargain, right?
However, nobody was buying them…
The machine showed who was behind the cheap clothing we buy:
Often-underage workers work as many as 16 hours a day…
…for as little as 13 cents an hour
Do you still want to buy this 2 EUR t-shirt?
Of course, most people decided to donate to their cause instead of going through with the purchase
Here’s the full video:
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and who did my 50€ shirt?
same poor employers, just the company earn more money for them
That's the thing, buying more expensive clothing IN NO WAY guarantees against bad labor practices.
Your €50 costs peanuts to make. They company you buy it off exploits you and the workers for easy profit. Only the company wins.
£50 shirt, I mean.
The same workers...only some middleman has figured out the secret of spotting a complete dumbass and selling him a 2 euro shirt for 50 euro.
Right? Shoes aren't worth $100+ per pair. They cost less than $2 to make, probably way less. They charge as much as they think can.
Same people. lol
The same workers, but someone get more profit.
The same slave-workers, but, someone get more profit.
Probably the same folks makin a sweet profit off the mark-up
the same people ... The product company kept their 48 bucks
Probably the same people. Isn't it sad? Whe pay for brands and rarely for fabric quality.
It's the same $2 t-shirt.
So when no one buys the 2 euro shirts there isn't a need for poor Nanisha to work in a sweat shop so she loses her 0.13$ a day job & starves
But if all people started to care about what they buy then companies would have to come up with a more ethical strategy.
Yeah. Right. And slaves were given room and board.
The problem reside in goverments that allow this kind of underemployment. Clothing companies do like any other, reduce costs.
People in developing countries buy clothing too. A rise in the cost of clothing to pay for higher wages harms them.
Nice thought, but nonsense. People can't afford this any longer.
People lie
more efficient strategies for gaining more money... from our 2 euros that we donated Nanisha probably gets only 50c and no job tomorrow ...
No. When big companies stop monopolising countries like this their economies will be more localised and sustainable.
Those people donate the money to those woman so they can better themselves and get better jobs!
This is the 'free market' art work, hey? Somebody's making a lot of money, so all is well in the world.
The problem is, that people still has that argument, and keep buying stuff at primarkt. That is not hoe we are going to change the world!
Lol
I had the same thought, but then I realized, the company can pocket a tad bit less to even the wages. They'll still make bank.
Donate
For the fashion companies? They should donate. A lot!
She will never get her donation..
EXACTLY.
What if you choose to buy it?
you choose to buy it these people still have jobs
Then you would be an arsehole...
so everyone who can't afford expensive clothes is an arsehole.
so people who can't afford expensive clothes are all arseholes.
Like you when you buy "designers" jeans for 100 usd made from same workers in same place. You got to realise: all companys got cheep labor.
Yeah, but an arsehole with a really clean, new white shirt.
Yes, because you know what's worse than working 16 hours a day for peanuts? Being unemployed. Yay, good job!
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he probably is.
then you finally get your t-shirt
Then you'd be getting a sweet deal, unlike those other chumps.
I know I would of these people all probably went to h and m after. Same thing.
Then those working people have a chance to starve.
then apparently you would be supporting cheap labor and poor conditions...but the non profit already has by purchasing the cheap shirts.
It would be a good keepsake.
and who did my 50€ shirt?
same poor employers, just the company earn more money for them
That's the thing, buying more expensive clothing IN NO WAY guarantees against bad labor practices.
Your €50 costs peanuts to make. They company you buy it off exploits you and the workers for easy profit. Only the company wins.
£50 shirt, I mean.
The same workers...only some middleman has figured out the secret of spotting a complete dumbass and selling him a 2 euro shirt for 50 euro.
Right? Shoes aren't worth $100+ per pair. They cost less than $2 to make, probably way less. They charge as much as they think can.
Same people. lol
The same workers, but someone get more profit.
The same slave-workers, but, someone get more profit.
Probably the same folks makin a sweet profit off the mark-up
the same people ... The product company kept their 48 bucks
Probably the same people. Isn't it sad? Whe pay for brands and rarely for fabric quality.
It's the same $2 t-shirt.
So when no one buys the 2 euro shirts there isn't a need for poor Nanisha to work in a sweat shop so she loses her 0.13$ a day job & starves
But if all people started to care about what they buy then companies would have to come up with a more ethical strategy.
Yeah. Right. And slaves were given room and board.
The problem reside in goverments that allow this kind of underemployment. Clothing companies do like any other, reduce costs.
People in developing countries buy clothing too. A rise in the cost of clothing to pay for higher wages harms them.
Nice thought, but nonsense. People can't afford this any longer.
People lie
more efficient strategies for gaining more money... from our 2 euros that we donated Nanisha probably gets only 50c and no job tomorrow ...
No. When big companies stop monopolising countries like this their economies will be more localised and sustainable.
Those people donate the money to those woman so they can better themselves and get better jobs!
This is the 'free market' art work, hey? Somebody's making a lot of money, so all is well in the world.
The problem is, that people still has that argument, and keep buying stuff at primarkt. That is not hoe we are going to change the world!
Lol
I had the same thought, but then I realized, the company can pocket a tad bit less to even the wages. They'll still make bank.
Donate
For the fashion companies? They should donate. A lot!
She will never get her donation..
EXACTLY.
What if you choose to buy it?
you choose to buy it these people still have jobs
Then you would be an arsehole...
so everyone who can't afford expensive clothes is an arsehole.
so people who can't afford expensive clothes are all arseholes.
Like you when you buy "designers" jeans for 100 usd made from same workers in same place. You got to realise: all companys got cheep labor.
Yeah, but an arsehole with a really clean, new white shirt.
Yes, because you know what's worse than working 16 hours a day for peanuts? Being unemployed. Yay, good job!
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
he probably is.
then you finally get your t-shirt
Then you'd be getting a sweet deal, unlike those other chumps.
I know I would of these people all probably went to h and m after. Same thing.
Then those working people have a chance to starve.
then apparently you would be supporting cheap labor and poor conditions...but the non profit already has by purchasing the cheap shirts.
It would be a good keepsake.