Bangladesh

More than 200 hard-working and poor Bangladeshis have died in a garment factory collapse. They were not attending a sporting event. They were not well fed and well paid middle class people with the physical health and wealth to travel somewhere to run 26 miles as a hobby. In fact, they were slaving away for poor wages to clothe well paid middle class people around the world cheaply. Yet there is little outrage about their deaths here in the self-absorbed Western media. This represents the injustice and inequity of the current corporate capitalist system which has taken control of the planet's governments.

 

I am not saying that the worth of individual lives or deaths should be at all comparable. In fact, I am saying quite the opposite. Until the deaths of garment workers in poor countries cause as resounding an outcry for proactive change as the deaths of comparatively wealthy Westerners in wealthy countries, those who work for universal equality and universal justice cannot rest.