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Essay / The Pros and Cons of Corporations - 975
These millionaires and billionaires have different intentions: they want to make more money and save money, like in sweatshops. They send manufacturing jobs overseas, where they can pay people less than a dollar an hour under inappropriate conditions. “In developing countries, an estimated 168 million children aged 5 to 14 are forced to work.” (DoSomething.Org). Based on personal knowledge as an American, children must be at least 16 years old and have parental consent to work. But even then, at that age, you can only work a certain number of hours. At least 21 workers died and 50 were injured when a fire ripped through a Bangladeshi factory making clothes for budget retailer H&M and other companies as they worked overnight to fulfill orders. " (Martin Hickman) Sweatshops are very dangerous places to work due to lack of safety precautions: e.g. fire extinguishers, exit doors and stairs