When a Sweatshop Job is Your Ticket Out

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Those that do the garbage scavenging are the unfortunate one. There is no option for them out here. Besides, Cambodian people have been attacked since the Vietnam War. During this war, about 2.7 million tons of bombs were dropped on them, then the "killing fields" or the "genocide", then the communist Vietnamese invasion, and then the Civil War. As you see, there was no good time for them to promote prosperity for themselves.
But considering a job like this "helps sustain the global economy" as quoted below, I totally believe something is totally wrong with whoever wrote this because it is not a safe place to work there. Or would you like to work there?
"As for dumps, I think you underestimate the fact that garbage scavenging, like maquila work, is labor that helps sustain the global economy. There's a reason that the people you met got money for plastic, aluminum, etc. There is a large and very volatile world market for those materials. When the economy boomed (i.e. before August of 2008), scavengers were getting record prices."

Chi Vansuy of OR 2:17PM January 17, 2009

Those that do the garbage scavenging are the unfortunate one. There is no option for them out here. Besides, Cambodian people have been attacked since the Vietnam War. During this war, about 2.7 million tons of bombs were dropped on them, then the "killing fields" or the "genocide", then the communist Vietnamese invasion, and then the Civil War. As you see, there was no good time for them to promote prosperity for themselves.
But considering a job like this "helps sustain the global economy" as quoted below, I totally believe something is totally wrong with whoever wrote this because it is not a safe place to work there. Or would you like to work there?
"As for dumps, I think you underestimate the fact that garbage scavenging, like maquila work, is labor that helps sustain the global economy. There's a reason that the people you met got money for plastic, aluminum, etc. There is a large and very volatile world market for those materials. When the economy boomed (i.e. before August of 2008), scavengers were getting record prices."

Chi Vansuy of OR 2:17PM January 17, 2009