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I think what people want is for comapnies in the US and Europe to act in the employees best interest and not worry about profit. I get that, I would love for everyone to be paid a living wage. I would love for everyone to get a years maternity/paternity leave. I would love for everyone to have amazing health care coverage.
The reality is, our idealism that everyone makes a living wage, has health care, reasonable vacation, and the like crashes head long with our desire to pay less for what we want. So we talk about it but buy the shirt that costs the least and don't worry about who made it and how they are treated.
Lets face it, everyone on this board has an e-reader of some type. How many of those devices are made in the US or Europe where there are some labor laws to protect workers? I won't say zero, becauses I don't know where the smaller devices are manufactured but we know that Kindles, Nooks, iPads are made in China. I am guessing that the Kobo is made in China.
I used to have students who participated in protests against globalization who would get annoyed with me when I commented on how nice their Nikes looked in the pictures.
Most of us talk the talk but we don't walk the walk.
If you are offended by Amazon (and every other company who has warehouses) behaves then don't buy from them. Send them an email and let the m know why you are not. If enough people are outraged, Amazon will change its policies.
And prices will go up because they will have to pay employees more, pay for benefits, and pay for vacation time.
And then people will complain that they raised prices.
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