The U.S is a young country that was made for the people by the people ground up. It was people who left countries hoping to find something better right?

In order to establish themselves, took hundreds of years, gallons upon gallons of blood, sweat and hard work. For about 100 years or so, this country had slave labor as well as the citizens to help it get to where it is. And whether we want to admit it we still profit as a country from not so noble ways.

Seriously you can walk in Los Angeles and find a sweat shop. I see them when I go to school. The people seem content and okay with each other, I suppose where ever they came from, this must be better.

When I get on the freeway, and I see this stupid old man (yes I say stupid old man- it upsets me to see it…) with one leg, and a cup out asking for money, and I see people chasing trucks or begging to get hired to do home construction jobs….

People keep hiring them. Giving them money, supporting them. Getting clothes made, getting fruits and vegetables picked. <_< Inadvertently doing recycling for us because they’re trying to put there kids through college by going through the garbages and finding soda cans and bottles.

I guess, what I’m trying to say, if one would like to inspire people to support humanity through commerce then the US should be model, and targeted specifics are made when addressing such a worldly issue.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not all excited about Chinese products. But that label greeted with prejudice does not represent all companies in China.

They are still working on it. And the media makes the world so much more smaller so we can see exactly what is happening there and find out exactly who is doing what (and who is blaming who.)

I think the irony of this all is, is that Nikita wants just to inform us as consumers about all the products that Sockdreams carries, to be aware of exactly where they came from right?

BUT I doubt seriously, that if ANY of the products came from less than humanitarian or safety standard conditions (and were talking specifics, not targeting a country as a whole) , this site will not carry it, I doubt….. not matter how good it is.

As far as I’m concerned as a consumer, especially a SockDreams customer, I will buy your stuff. The only time I look where it comes from is if its priced unusually high, or if I know that there is a specialized technique used on them (micro fibers from Japan for instance.) Really I’m just trying to justify the price to myself.

So in the end, I probably wouldn’t have posted so much on something if I just didn’t feel it seemed unfair or incomplete to where it was unintentionally slanting an opinion (for lack of better terms…)..

This is a good throught provoking post. Socks are good for the mind. =P

The first line of the entry is :

“Try as we might, most of us end up with stuff carrying this tag. As a buyer I’ve tried to avoid it, but sometimes even items I’m familiar with that didn’t use to come from China show up with the tag, if I ask I am often assured there isn’t a change over and it was just a temporary source…”

That’s why.

Of course, just because something says it is made in America doesn’t necessarily mean it was really made in the US — as the controversy over the Marianas Islands proved a few years ago (google it if you’ve never heard about it …).

By the way, if you do need to buy items made outside of the US, it’s a good thing to look for items made in Cambodia. It’s not widely known, but Cambodia has extremely strict labor laws which were developed decades ago with the intervention of the US. Their labor laws are in many ways stricter than Western ones. However, this increases the price of their products in comparison with those of neighboring Asian countries. So there are some factories in Cambodia which are breaking the law and operating in sweatshop conditions, but many do not. So I think it’s a good thing to support products made in this country.

Relax, kick your shoes off, and bask in the knowledge that the socks you are wearing comes from a company that cares about you. And the world.
But mostly, you.
I can say this, because I am lucky enough to be surrounded by the Sock Dreamers who work here, and witness firsthand how far each and every one goes to make any individual customer happy.

So whether you agree with her reasoning or not, you have to respect her heart.

people are always spouting off about how we need to boycott China but if that really were to happen on a mass scale the price of EVERYTHING would go WAY up.

it was the same thing with the gas alternatives- people saying we should use corn to produce gas. well more corn going towards gas=less going toward consumption. also now corn is considered more valuable as it is now worth more since it is being used for gas- thus farmers want to grow more corn, and LESS of everything else which means less of other foods/less grazing/less livestock= the cost of ALL food go up as a result.
and only now after all of this the humanitarians go “whoops we didnt know that would happen but our intentions were good so you can’t be mad at us”