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This is an archived blog post. Jason Linetsky is no longer a Ningin blogger.


I was reading our forums and the Engrish shirts kicked a thought into my head I just had to post. It’s unusual that I post something I haven’t research or written a journalistic piece for but oh well. Patterns can be broken so here is my thought.

Is it possible, with the evolution of technology and laws, we have gone from brick and mortar sweatshops to traveling ones? Is it no longer neccessary for morons to take “fresh off the boat” people and get them to work cheaply in the horrible conditions of a factory sewing clothing for P. Diddy’s clothing line?

New York City was (and still is) famous for sweatshops. There is no doubt that they exist. But, with the turn of the 21st Century and new technology, sweatshops have become roving businesses. The workers are free to move around outside the walls of those cement prisons but are still treated as they were before with possible a few cents added to the pay.

Here is two classic New York City cases:

DVD Sellers-
Chinese women setup a blanket in a subway station and stand there screaming “dvd 5 dolla!”. Also various Chinese people carry giant backpacks full of bootleg dvds. They typically go to places where many people will be sitting around such as fast food places, laundrymats, and walk through the subway trains putting them into people’s faces asking “dvd?!”

Tourist store dropouts-
When you visit Chinatown in NYC you automatically see every one of them with many toys and blinking things in front. Well when those aren’t selling there is an alternative way to sell them. We have Chinese people who walk through the trains with random blinking and noisy toys and packs of batteries screaming “Batteries 1 dolla!”.

It’s like a traveling sweatshop for them and they barely understand English more than money terms. No one knows or ever sees who they get the dvds, toys, and batteries from and the police generally don’t care. We have occassional police stings to get major dvd bootleggers but usually there is nothing done to the sweatshop workers as they are just walking around screaming a random phrase over and over agian and walking past people. Will this change anytime soon? Doubtful. I’ll post in the future if anyone ever decides to stop them or change how they are being treated.


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She looks so different in Ugly Better though.


JasonLinetsky - 09/18/08 7:55 pm

lol You be the director Simon. I’ll take care of the funding.

Jason: Seriously if you can fund, I’ll direct the documentary


She is! I haven’t seen the 2nd one either but I still liked the first a lot. I guess it’s a movie meant for chicks.


America Ferrera is on Ugly Betty.


lol quickly away from the topic. Just throw one of them back to Ugly Betty..


Carmen is a slut. haha


japangirl - 09/19/08 4:36 am

I really want to see the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.

Movie is pretty dull but the hot Asian guy makes it all worth it. Plus Carmen? She won’t shut up. “Waaaaaaaaah! I got into Harvard! I hate it here! Why is everything so hard for me!?”


I really want to see the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.


lol You be the director Simon. I’ll take care of the funding.


i see the next movie title “Sisterhood of Traveling Sweatshops”


erm I mean scams. hm this seems like a blog post in the making. Gaming scams. considering considering....


yeah and always will. But in Runescape’s case they’ve done a fantastic job of getting the amount cut down. They’ve also invented ways to stop bots from cheating the game and the players. For a while, after Runescape started its 3D graphical interface and added much more to the game, there was a giant influx of programmed accounts that would login and automatically do tasks without someone controlling the account from a computer. It seriously diminished the economy and people started getting truly annoyed. With updates to features and newer features we don’t see those automated accounts anymore. I think Runescape’s makers, Jagex Inc, will be the foremost experts on stopping gaming cheating and sams in the online gaming world and MMORPGs.


They still sell it online.


fitzwillie: Runescape.com has been fighting a war against real world trading for years. Runescape’s economy is Gold Piece (GP) based with a full multiserver exchange and many other ways to do business on the game. Fir years people have abused it by selling items on there for real money. The FBI and local law enforcement have been helping being those people in and doing a great job of it. Programming has stopped much of it and security protocals also have helped but it still happens.


It sounds better than cold mines.


There’s people on games who just sit there and game for hours only to sell the stuff for IRL money.


I never realized burning dvds was so difficult. haha


You got to work hard to get an easy life.



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