In Reply to: INDO posted by trd on Tuesday, 6. September 2005 at 16:54 Bali Time:
The more information you have, the easier it is to make the right decision.
How many days would your Indonesian friend have to work before he could spend US$200 on a pair of shoes? $3-4 a day is the average salary for Nike factory workers in Indonesia. You can only make that look good by comparing it to starving. I think there's some middle ground that could be explored here.
Three quarters of the people on Earth are starving. Corporations spend hundreds of billions of dollars on advertising each year, which the consumers ultimately pay for. You watch hundreds of hours of ads on TV every year, and you tell me to keep it to myself because I make a short post on a forum?
Get some perspective.