The post created by Lyn titled “Women Working In Poor Conditions” really hit home for me seeing how working environments can vary across the world. What is more striking to me is how third world countries are producing these products for developed countries like the United States and most of Europe. Developed countries should be leaders for other countries around the globe and should be paving the path for those who need assistance.  The United States in particular is allowing this behavior to continue and saying it is okay to respect your employees within bare minimum respect despite overcoming those same issues decades ago. Seeing how in the picture only women of all ages and boys (who are obviously minors working) working puts it into perspective that change is needed. There are so many working hazards that would not pass in the United States like it being obviously very crowded with many people and fabrics and can easily cause a fire that was shown in both videos for this week’s assignment. The YouTube video called Triangle Returns shows how a fire broke out in a very similar fashion to the fire in the sweatshop in NYC in 1911. Factories in Bangladesh are underpaying their workers and respond to any form of resistance with violence that can lead to death. After the fire that broke out in 1911 in NYC, there were protests happening all around the city immediately and forced a change in the workforce. With voices being heard and 100 years of progress laws were created to enforce safety standards and child labor laws to ensure the safety of everyone. There should be no reason why American companies are using third-world countries for exploitation when America had to go through the same struggles. It is modern-day slavery overseas that needs to be stopped. Equal pay, child labor laws, union laws, etc. should be enforced all around the globe regardless of what country it is. Working in a restaurant myself and seeing how laws from 100 years ago are still being applied today and seeing how useful they are, it is unimaginable how they didn’t exist before. However, many companies especially after COVID are dealing with many protest from their employees demanding better pay and more rights as workers. With both videos being watched and the article, it is becoming very clear that the United States has slowly digressed and lost its motive because not only are they allowing horrible work conditions to occur in other countries, but they are lacking to take care of their own workers here. Unemployment is at an all-time high due to employees leaving their jobs looking for a better one. Even with that being said when it comes to diversity in the workforce, it is uncommon to see women at a high management level and many have to endure immense amounts of harassment to make it past a day of work. In complete honesty, the picture shows how ugly companies can be after “making it” and forgetting all they did to get where they’re at. CEOs are okay with abusing workers at home and overseas (especially women and minors) in order to make as much profit as possible. I hope that immediate change is brewing to change the lives of all workers to create some form of equality.