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And come and rescue us
from our circumstance.

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And so when Nike comes in
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they are regarded by
everybody in the community

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as an enormous godsend.
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Hey wait!
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You are not
permitted to be here!

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The door was wide open.
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No no no no no.
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That’s my clothes.
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Those are my clothes.
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This is not your clothes.
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Why your camera!?
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Don’t touch the woman.
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Why!?
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This is a private company.
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Without permission
how can you come here?

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Yes well the door
was wide open

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The doors
for employees

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not for you.
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We went through
the garbage dump

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in the Dominican
Republic.

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We always do this
kind of stuff

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we dig around.
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One day we found
a big pile

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of Nikes internal
pricing documents.

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Nike assigns a time
frame to each operation.

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They don’t talk
about minutes.

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They break the timeframe into
ten thousandths of a second.

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You get to the bottom
of all 22 operations;

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they give the workers 6.6
minutes to make the shirt.

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

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That’s 6.6 minutes
equals $ 0.08.

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

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of the retail price.
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This is the reality.
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It's the science
of exploitation.

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What happens in the areas
where these corporations

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go in and are successful?
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They soon find that they cant
do anymore in that country

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because the wages
are too high now.

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And what’s that another
way of saying

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well the people are
no longer desperate.

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

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they’re all plump and
healthy and wealthy.

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

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and raise their level up.

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