11/28/12

Today in human geo we continued watching the video on China and it's economy. I learned a lot of stuff that I would of never imagined would be possible that is just terrible. Like for example women who do hard labor almost all day, only get payed 1-2 dollars...A DAY. This one family only had 600 collected from working all year. 600 dollars...between the mother AND the father. FOR THE WHOLE YEAR. That's just crazy. And the men that worked labor all day only got payed 3-4 dollars a day. It was so irrational and sad. In the video the woman who was working with heavy labor and dangerous things had her daughter with her, and her daughter was helping with the dangerous job, because she probably couldn't afford day care. It is so sad. We also saw how this company had to shut down because the same company was in China and the Chinese company was doing better, and the original company in Missouri had to completely shut down and over 600 workers ended up losing their jobs. Some of them were close to their 70's for crying out loud! It is absolutely crazy.