An Important Point About Harrahs Entrance Into The Online Poker Market

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Is this actually true? I have a hard time believe the slave part is true. I think 13 year olds should be able to work if they really want to.

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Here's how it works. A 13 year old from a poor family in Bangladesh is under tremendous pressure to work, so that his impoverished family can afford rice and, if they're lucky, some lentils. He goes to find a job, let's say, in the gravel mining sector. He sees that there's an opening, but sees too that he'll need tools, a shovel and a pick, in order to join the workforce. The trouble is he can't afford a shovel or a pick, so he takes a loan from the management to buy a shovel and a pick. He then starts work, never to realize that the interest on the loan is accruing faster than he can save money from his $0.25/hour wage. If he doesn't pay off that shovel and pick, he'll be fined further or, worse, imprisoned (or so he is told). And so, there you go, a 13 year old boy turned slave. This is just one example, but I've read about others, and it occurs across industries. You can be certain that virtually every product you buy from Bangladesh for cheap has come from a factory where child labor, and probably child slave labor, has been used in its manufacture. Likewise, you can be certain that virtually every piece of chocolate you eat that originates from Africa has also been brought to you by way of child slave labor. It's a world-wide epidemic in the third-world, but we don't really hear much about it, because we're too busy being jerked around by a government that wants to keep us safe from internet gambling.

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Certainly you can a provide a link to evidence that Nike is engaged in this same practice as the "gravel pit" as it was Nike who was called out as employers of slave labor in your first post? Slave labor as defined in the above where workers do a job for what amounts to less then 0 pay.

I also have to wonder if .25 in Bangladesh has the same buying power as .25 in the US, I'm guessing the .25 is worth a bit more in Bangladesh.