This article was interesting to me as a business person as well as a consumer. Even with the media coverage of tragedies at factories in Bangladesh and other countries, we don’t have enough dialogue in the United States regarding the true cost of a $5 brand name tee shirt. U.S. companies exploit underdeveloped countries to manufacture clothes and other goods. They may follow the laws of the local nation but how can they support working conditions that we would never accept at home. There is very little pressure for them to make investments in these factories and so it’s easier to pass the responsibility along to the suppliers. The companies also use industry standards as an excuse. If everyone else does it, why should we have to change? The statement we debated in Law class was at the front of my mind while reading the article: just because something is legal does not mean it’s ethical. There are many stakeholders in this story so this isn’t a black and white issue. However, I encourage us all to do what we can to push our country to one that cares for humanity at least as much as profitability.