Hi everyone and Jean in Poole who wrote: > I seem to remember someone saying a while ago that butterflies are frequenty > found on lace hand made in China for about 4 pence an hour. There are two > ways of looking at this situation. (a) we shouldn't be buying things where > the amount paid to the maker is so small (b) If no-one buys these items, the > maker doesn't eat.
There is that, plus by the time we see these laces at retailers, the worker has already received whatever wage, from the wholesale/distribution point. Our money, if we buy such a lace, just goes to the retailer. I wonder if at the wholesale level the trade works as with vegetables - the buyer wants X goods, the distributor arranges to supply same and the buyer has to take Y items, too (e.g. a quantity of handmade doilies). -- Bev, musing, in Sooke BC while white 'rain' flutters to the ground without sticking (on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
