Think your job sucks?

[episodic]

http://alexiuss.deviantart.com/journal/17919112/

 

[Molondo]

One of those images looks like the Rivet city from fallout3

 

[PieIsAwesome]

Such a shame to destroy those beautiful ships.

 

[nerp]

Would be a good thing for me to freelance.

Now, to find cheap plane tickets. . .

 

[Modular]

Ya know...my jobs still worse.

 

[Bignate603]

Nobody is going to say anything about the living conditions of these people? This is terrible that anybody lives like this and just accepts that death at your job is normal.

 

[MustangSVT]

Watch Manufactured Landscapes (2006) DVD

This is one of the locations shown, along with china ..

 

[bctbct]

thats crazy

 

[MotionMan]

A family member sent me the following picture to try and make me feel better about my job (I am a lawyer and I had had a tough week):

Bad Job









I wrote her the following in response:

Quite honestly, I am not sure how that job differs from mine except that the assholes I deal with actually deny that they are full of shit.

Have a nice day

MotionMan

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Originally posted by: Bignate603
Nobody is going to say anything about the living conditions of these people? This is terrible that anybody lives like this and just accepts that death at your job is normal.

Glad to see you feel so strongly about it. What do you plan to do to remedy this problem?

 

[QueBert]

wow that's powerful shit, trying to imagine humans with no shoes taking apart ships of those size 14 hours a day for $1.25 a day. Scary and very sad how this is the best it's gonna get for them. I couldn't imagine working every day under such conditions. I'm sure the people who put these shipwreckers to work make millions while paying out less than pennies on the dollar. It's heartbreaking what greed does, I'm all for the rich getting richer but not like this. That one guy said he's seen 100 people die with his own eyes. I wonder why the wonderful people of the UN don't step in and do something? There's no justification for this kind of situation but I bet nothing will ever be done about it.

so so sad...

 

[gevorg]

This is just example of price efficiency in globalization, they're doing the job that American shipbreakers don't want to do. There is a name for it too. Hmm... oh yeah!! its outsourcing!!!

 

[0roo0roo]

yea it was on 60 minutes a while back.

and well that country is tiny, bit smaller than iowa as described in cia fact book. has a population of 150 million and a ridiculous population growth over the years.
so yea they are poor. spamming the babies...maybe they shoulda thought about it.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: QueBert
wow that's powerful shit, trying to imagine humans with no shoes taking apart ships of those size 14 hours a day for $1.25 a day. Scary and very sad how this is the best it's gonna get for them. I couldn't imagine working every day under such conditions. I'm sure the people who put these shipwreckers to work make millions while paying out less than pennies on the dollar. It's heartbreaking what greed does, I'm all for the rich getting richer but not like this. That one guy said he's seen 100 people die with his own eyes. I wonder why the wonderful people of the UN don't step in and do something? There's no justification for this kind of situation but I bet nothing will ever be done about it.

so so sad...

On the other hand, that's $1.25 that they otherwise would not have.

And really, what can the UN, or anyone, reasonably be expected to do?
The ideal solution would be to 1) Get the people to stop having so many kids. A big population is just a logistics nightmare when there are few resources available to begin with. 2) Somehow make the country self sufficient, or else able to produce some commodity for use in trade. This is difficult, expensive, and will take a long time, but would ultimately be the best option. 3) Provide aid. This gets consumed year after year, and does not address the underlying problem.



Yes, by our standards, what they may earn is a pittance, and they're not likely to know anything else. There was a time when that sort of hard labor was the best humanity could do. Some of us are fortunate enough to have been born where there is wealth in the here and now. In time, hopefully the rest of the world will be able to catch up to some reasonable standard of living.


Or, in 300 years, when the wealthy nations of the world look out, they see people in what would today count as a "middle-class" American household. As the wealthy enjoy their 750 year-long lifespans thanks to numerous implanted technological devices and cellular-restoration nanobots, they'll see the "poor" nations and think, scary and very sad how this is the best it's gonna get for them.

 

[Cristatus]

Actually, there's two locations in those photos: Alang, and Chittagong.

Both are so bad, it's unbelievable. People are working in the worst conditions that I have ever seen, and yet, they are happy to work there because thery make money to send back home. At least in Alang, which is in the state of Gujurat, it's a vicious cycle in which people get married, and then they can't support their families, so there will be up to 3 family members working at one site, just to support their family. I've heard many of them say that at least when they come to the shipyards, they're guaranteed a job, and although it may be crap, it's paying for their bills.

This is similar in fashion to the coal mines of yore.

(C)

 

[Farang]

Great work by the photographer

 

[IEC]

Look at the November 10, 2008 60 Minutes special on Electronic Waste. (Guiyu, PRC)

 

[Elganja]

iirc there was a show on discovery channel or nat geo about this

 

[Fritzo]

You ever walked an old lady through an Internet installation? It's worse...far...far..worse.

 

[OulOat]

Originally posted by: Cristatus
Actually, there's two locations in those photos: Alang, and Chittagong.

Both are so bad, it's unbelievable. People are working in the worst conditions that I have ever seen, and yet, they are happy to work there because thery make money to send back home. At least in Alang, which is in the state of Gujurat, it's a vicious cycle in which people get married, and then they can't support their families, so there will be up to 3 family members working at one site, just to support their family. I've heard many of them say that at least when they come to the shipyards, they're guaranteed a job, and although it may be crap, it's paying for their bills.

This is similar in fashion to the coal mines of yore.

(C)

A job is a job. Even in the link about the horrid conditions that are these junkyards, the workers ain't complaining about it. The alternative is that much worse. Your family starves because you are too lazy to work. The only people whining are the people who had the good life, who never knew what hunger felt like.