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Originally Posted by Magic Wheel Memory
What would you propose the government should do, and what benefits would result?
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It should be a combined effort of government regulation through fining, legislated rules, penal tax programs and other aspects of the "hard" power tool kit that the government at the municipal, state and federal levels has and often uses.
but it has to be a joint effort of government and social involvement. The people themselves have to be directly and proactively involved through awareness/advocacy, appropriate boycotts/protests, and a collective shift in consumer habits/preferences.
This is what changed the sweatshop mentality and business practices of Forever21 here in LA, where the women laborers had to boycott, picket and strike for two years and inevitably at to file a federal lawsuit. The combined effort of workers putting pressure on the business, on growing public awareness and consumer patterns shifting away from support exploitative practices, and the threat of direct government force all pushed and pulled Forever21 into a more equitable business model, which benefits the workers, the customers, and in the precedent the society as a whole
