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:23:00
They break the timeframe into
ten thousandths of a second.

:23:04
You get to the bottom
of all 22 operations;

:23:06
they give the workers 6.6
minutes to make the shirt.

:23:09
It's $ 0.70 an hour
in the Dominican Republic.

:23:11
That’s 6.6 minutes
equals $ 0.08.

:23:14
These are Nikes documents.
:23:15
That means the wages come to
three tenths of one percent

:23:18
of the retail price.
:23:19
This is the reality.
:23:21
It's the science
of exploitation.

:23:35
What happens in the areas
where these corporations

:23:37
go in and are successful?
:23:38
They soon find that they cant
do anymore in that country

:23:44
because the wages
are too high now.

:23:47
And what’s that another
way of saying

:23:48
well the people are
no longer desperate.

:23:50
So okay we’ve used up
all the desperate people there

:23:52
they’re all plump and
healthy and wealthy.

:23:55
Let’s move on to the next
desperate lot and employ them

:23:59
and raise their level up.
:24:12
Well the whole idea of
the export processing zone

:24:14
is that it will be the
first step towards

:24:17
this wonderful
new development

:24:19
through the investment that’s
attracted to these countries

:24:22
there will be
a trickle down effect

:24:24
into the communities.
:24:25
But because so many countries
are now in the game

:24:28
of creating these
free trade enclaves

:24:31
they have to keep providing
more and more incentives

:24:34
for companies to come to their
little denationalized pocket.

:24:39
And the tax holidays
get longer.

:24:42
So the workers rarely
make enough money

:24:44
to buy
three meals a days

:24:46
let alone feed
their local economy.


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