journalize any cost that this unwary or uncaring public will allow it to externalize to determine the kind of personality that drives the corporation to behave like an externalizing machine we can analyze it like a psychiatrist would a patient we can even formulate a diagnosis on the basis of typical case histories of harm it is inflicted on others selected from a universe of corporate activity well this is the office of the National Labor Committee here in the garment area of New York City it's a little bit to shovel these are all from different campaigns to make
this stuff concrete as possible we purchase all of the products from the factories that we're talking about this shirt sells for fourteen dollars and ninety-nine cents and the women who made the shortcut paid three cents liz claiborne jackets made in El Salvador the jackets are 178 dollars and the workers were paid 74 cents for every jacket they made Alpine car stereos 31 cents now it's not just sneakers it's not just a perilous it's everything we were in Honduras and some workers they knew other kind of workmen we did and they approached us these young workers
and they said jail conditions now facture horrible will you please meet with us and we said we would but you can't meet in the developing world you can't walk up to an a factory with you know workers come out you interview them i mean there's goons despise the military police so you do everything in a clandestine manner we're about to start the meeting and in work three guys very tough looking guys the company had found out about out a meeting and sent these spies obviously we didn't have the meeting but these young girls were really
bright and as they were leaving away from the I side of the spies there's nothing to put their hands underneath the table and I put my palm under they put my hand under there and they put into my my hand their pay stubs so we'd know who they were what they were paid and the labels that they made in the factory so we'd know who they work for and I took my hand out after everyone had left and then the palm of my hand was to face a Kathie Lee Gifford but the bottom of it
is the interesting thought a portion of the proceeds from the sale of this garment will be donated to various chosens charities it's very touching kichar right here walmart is telling you if you purchase these pants and Kathie Lee is telling you purchase these pants you're gonna help children the problem was that people handed us the label or 30 years of age too many people have family work just we used to fund how many people do support 850 people and how do you drill with thats our officiant let's look at it from a different point of
view let's look at it from the point of view of the the people in Bangladesh who are starving to death the people in China who are starving to death and the only thing that they have to offer to anybody that is worth anything is there low-cost labor and in effect what they are saying to the world is they have this big flag that says come over and hire us we will work for ten cents an hour because ten cents an hour will buy us the rice that we need not to starve and come and rescue
us from our circumstance and so when Nike comes in they are regarded by everybody in the community as an enormous godsend Lucan today here the door was wide open and what's my calls Michael hi this is not your blow where you amer let's look don't touch the lucky one okay this is a private company yes without permission how can you come in well the door was wide open and the only do I go when you're older employees not for you we went through the garbage dump in the Dominican Republic we always do this kind of
stuff we dig around one day we found a big pile of nikes internal pricing documents nike assigns a time frame teach operation they don't talk about minutes they break the time frame into ten thousandths of a second you get to the bottom of all 22 operations to get the work is six point six minutes to make the shirt get seventy cents an hour and a Dominican Republic that's six point six minutes equals eight cents these are Nikes documents that means the wages come to three tenths but one percent of the retail price this is the
reality it's the science of exploitation you what happens in the areas where these corporations go in and are successful they soon find that they can't do anymore in that country because the wages are too high now and what's that another way of saying well the people are no longer desperate so okay we've used up all the disparate people there they're all plump and healthy and wealthy let's move on to the next desperate a lot and employ them and raise their level up well the whole idea of the export processing zone is that it will be
the first step towards this wonderful new development through the investment that's attracted to these countries there will be a trickle-down effect into the communities but because so many countries are now in the game of creating these free trade enclaves they have to keep providing more and more incentives for companies to come to their little D nationalise pocket and that the tax holidays get longer so the workers rarely make enough money to buy three meals a day let alone feed their local economy something happened in nineteen forty which marked the beginning of a new era the
era of the ability to synthesize and create on an unlimited scale new chemicals as it never existed before the world and using the magic of research oil companies compete with each other in taking the petroleum molecule apart and rearranging it into well you name it so suddenly it became possible to produce any new chemicals synthetic chemicals the likes of which had never existed before in the world for any purpose and at virtually no cost badbrakes toothbrushes tires insecticide cosmetics weed killers a whole galaxy of things to make a better life on Earth fund as if
you wanted to go to a chemist and say look I want to have a chemical say a pesticide which will persist throughout the food chain and I don't want it to have to renew it very very often I'd like it to be relatively non destructible and then he'd put two benzene molecules on the blackboard and add a chlorine here and a chlorine that and that was DDT when the 8th army needed civilians to help them out in our occupation they called on native doctors to administer DDT under the supervision of our men who stare a
potential typhus epidemic dusting like this goes a long way in checking disease and the labs are then pardon our dust ah
