You’re pitting them, which I guess means you’re not satisfied with their statement of regret.
What did you have in mind?
…Regrets it all the way to the bank!
Well it did take place from the 60’s to the 80’s so 24 to 44 years ago. Current management at IKEA is going to pay those people now. So it is really nice of them.
How much harder is it to manufacture cheap wood furniture than it is to produce license plates and clean up litter on the highway?
You know that the US government uses prison labor to make the helmets for the army?
Did you get to the part of the article where the spokesmen for the victims themselves said “Ikea has taken the lead on this, for which we are very grateful,”? Or did you just read the headline and make a half-formed half-assed all-stupid pit post?
None of which is forced. They’re grossly underpaid, of course, but they’re prisoners and getting free room and board; they can opt out.
Isn’t IKEA’s whole business model based around their stuff being assembled by unpaid labor?
Yeah. I have the “psychological and physical scars” to prove it.
QFT
It wasn’t happening yesterday or some shit.
Is this because their stores are big, ugly blue and yellow boxes? Because if it is, I can behind that. OTherwise, a lot of shit happened in the past, and I kinda think the East German government should bear the bulk of the blame, if there is much.
I think it’s highly improbable that Walmart, Target, Kmart, or any of the other hundred American retailers don’t have the same thing on their hands with forced labor in China.