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MontanaMama

(23,337 posts)
3. Concentration camps are all about making money.
Tue Jun 25, 2019, 02:47 PM
Jun 2019

Make no mistake about it. Follow the money. Money and cruelty...cruelty is also the point.

sheshe2

(83,885 posts)
18. Not the kids.
Tue Jun 25, 2019, 07:48 PM
Jun 2019

My guess would be the staff. Kids don't even get a toothbrush much less a clean diaper.

Croney

(4,670 posts)
6. In the past year I have bought Wayfair beds, sofas, desks, chairs
Tue Jun 25, 2019, 03:11 PM
Jun 2019

for grandkids and myself. I will watch to see how this plays out. There are other stores I can use.

Their beds are ok, not high quality but the price is low.

bigbrother05

(5,995 posts)
13. Wonder if P&G workers would strike if they sold Crest/Ivory Soap/Pampers?
Tue Jun 25, 2019, 04:03 PM
Jun 2019

The fact that Wayfare sold something that would make conditions better for the kids ought to be considered a good thing, but maybe push to have profits donated to a legal fund or something.

Or do the Wayfare employees think their products are inferior and harmful to those kids?

Maybe the workers could volunteer to deliver and install the beds to get them off the floors sooner?

Did their company conspire with the detention center contractors to defraud the government or advocate to have kids separated?

That the government is paying $750 per kid/day is not Wayfare's fault, but their business model might help the HHS contractors keep their costs low (money in the vultures pockets).

Ok, fire away, but selling a decent bed doesn't mean you're abusing kids unless those kids are the ones making them.

tishaLA

(14,176 posts)
15. " maybe push to have profits donated to a legal fund or something"
Tue Jun 25, 2019, 04:29 PM
Jun 2019

Is exactly what they're doing. It's even in the OP

stopdiggin

(11,358 posts)
17. that's part of the story
Tue Jun 25, 2019, 04:38 PM
Jun 2019

also in the post:
"signed a petition to ask that we cease all business with border camps; CEO said no —>employees are walking out tmrw at 1:30pm."

stopdiggin

(11,358 posts)
16. there is an element of silliness in some of this
Tue Jun 25, 2019, 04:35 PM
Jun 2019

So if your company is selling bottled water (or office supplies) to the police department, you're morally obligated to quit your job? Not sure if I'm quite down with that. I'm a little more on board with a suggestion that some of the profits could be directed towards an offset. Would the employees be willing to split that offset (payroll deductions) with the company? That sounds fair.

(on reflection, and edit: don't get me wrong, there probably ARE situations where rendering services and/or materials crosses ethical lines. private sector psychologists providing expertise on "enhanced interrogation" technique springs to mind .. and there's probably a lot of others. selling beds, or soap and supplies to a prison or detention facility doesn't quite rise to the same level. IMO.)

sheshe2

(83,885 posts)
19. How do we know the kids are getting the beds?
Tue Jun 25, 2019, 07:52 PM
Jun 2019

By all accounts they are sleeping on the floor. They aren't even getting clean diapers or a tooth brush. If they don't have clean diapers then they are not even being bathed.

Cadfael

(1,299 posts)
20. Excellent response to this thinking
Tue Jun 25, 2019, 09:33 PM
Jun 2019

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“Beds/No beds, for kids improperly locked up, is a false dichotomy. We are not against beds, we are against profiting off the detention of children.

A PRISON WITH A BED IS STILL A PRISON”
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