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[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 34 points 3 months ago

Luxury items made by exploited workers. What a surprising find.

[-] walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz 33 points 3 months ago

Wow I'm so surprised. I thought for sure such expensive luxury items would be made by craftsman. To think, all that profit going directly to the company and not the workers... Just shocking.

[-] LowleeKun@feddit.org 14 points 3 months ago

Textiles and exploited workers, name a more iconic duo.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 12 points 3 months ago

Hey i read this news before, it's a classic

[-] sunzu@kbin.run 7 points 3 months ago

It wouldn't be luxury if slavery wasnt involved

[-] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 11 points 3 months ago

This is being known for a long long time (think 90s and before).

Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah is a great book where this is also explained, if anyone's interested.

[-] triptrapper@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

The movie is exceptional also.

[-] don@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

And fuckall will be done about it because braindead crusters are genetically predisposed to being braindead

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

How can the laws be so lax in Italy that this would happen?

[-] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago
[-] FarFarAway@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago

Supposedly, met the son of a higher up in Armani, in college. He told us about how their jeans cost something like $2.50 (in the early 2000s) to make in an exploited factory in Bangladesh, and how everyone who would buy their jeans for $100 (or more) a pop was an idiot. They were making out like bandits and paying their workers next to nothing.

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

More surprised it was exploited workers in Italy and not some outsourced labor in another country like India or China

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