Nike is evil

I don't like the way they are trying to make so much money especially when they have loads of money already. It is evil I guess. If I ever become CEO of Nike I would not be trying to take money off everyone. My philosophy would be to make the world a fair and better place. Maybe nikeman or txrunnergirl can literally help me climb the ladder

Black Rifles Matter wrote:

Reminder: Nike factory workers in Asia, most of whom are female, average around US $.90/hour and work up to 80 hours a week so that Nike can pay Colin Kapernick millions to speak out against oppression and injustice.

"But it's a free market and they don't have to work at those factories!" Not necessarily. In many cases they are forced to work at the factories by husbands/fathers/local government.

"But that's good money in those countries." No, it's not. They're still dirt poor.

Nike is evil.

Phil Knight should demand Nike in ANY Country should pay workers the same as they do in the USA, If the minimum in the USA is $15 an hour in the USA, It must be $15 in China, Vietnam, Somalia ETC. If they were forced to pay everyone the same regardless of what Country they are in, there would be no incentive to move jobs out of the USA, which would mean more jobs for Americans, Not sure why Phil knight does not know this?

douglas burke wrote:

Phil Knight should demand Nike in ANY Country should pay workers the same as they do in the USA, If the minimum in the USA is $15 an hour in the USA, It must be $15 in China, Vietnam, Somalia ETC.

I agree.

All of you leftists on letsrun are liars and hypocrites. If you truly wanted "equality" and "fairness" and "redistribution", then you would demand better wages for your $200 shoes or your $1,000 iphone.

If you truly wanted all illegals to "share the American dream", then you would also give better wages to foreigners in other countries.

Go to the 1:15 mark to see the suicide nets at an Apple factory in China.

All of you leftists on letsrun are liars and hypocrites.

A couple of notes:

- That factory is Foxconn. Apple pays and leases them to manufacture products. That's not an Apple factory. Title is misleading. Does Apple dominate the relationship between the two? Yes. But that's not Apple's factory. Foxconn treats its employees terribly to keep Apple as a client.

Phil Knight should demand Nike in ANY Country should pay workers the same as they do in the USA, If the minimum in the USA is $15 an hour in the USA, It must be $15 in China, Vietnam, Somalia ETC.[/quote]

This has been attempted before. Nike couldn't do it and Phil Knight wrote about it in his memoir.

“Of course, there will always be the question of wages. The salary of a Third World factory worker seems impossibly low to Americans, and I understand. Still, we have to operate within the limits and structures of each country, each economy; we can’t simply pay whatever we wish to pay. In one country, which shall be nameless, when we tried to raise wages, we found ourselves called on the carpet, summoned to the office of a top government official and ordered to stop. We were disrupting the nation’s entire economic system, he said. It’s simply not right, he insisted, or feasible, that a shoe worker makes more than a medical doctor.”

Excerpt From: Phil Knight. “Shoe Dog.” Apple Books.

You guys are forgetting about greed. If Nike pays $15USD/hour to their employees to make shoes, owners of Nike will insist on the same/growing profit margins that they have today.

As an owner of Nike, do you want to make less money? As a consumer, do you want to pay more for your shoe?

It's the same thing that happens when Walmart moves into a city. Guess what, consumers want cheaper products and they go to Walmart. All the smaller, "mom and pop" stores that cannot compete with Walmart's low prices close up shop.

When Walmart moved into your city, did you continue to support the smaller, "mom and pop" shops or did you shop at Walmart?