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These are all true of Nike & Adidas.
I guarantee the bootleg Jordan skate shoe factory has a significantly lower pay gap between highest and lowest paid employees than Nike or Adidas. Those workers also likely have a better chance at organizing their workplace than in a Nike factory which they can just close as soon as a union is formed.
Dude, glad you can guarantee me with not knowing nothing at all.
Adidas and Nike doesn’t even own the factories, and they only work with the ones that live up to their standards, which are pretty damn high. Don’t you think they have human rights entities up their ass inspecting everything?? I’ve been in Asia for basically 3 months in total, I’ve been in the factories, I saw the production line, Its the same shit as any other industrial factory in Europe I’ve been, Most of the times with better machinery, because of the all the technical stuff they need to make, 8h turns with thousands and thousands of people changing seats. The workers had masks, water bottles, ventilated rooms, etc... Also the wage gap doesn’t mean shit. You can have an basically inexistent wage gap with everyone getting a shit salary. I’m sure the counterfeit factories respect all of the rules cause they ain’t evil right??
Well you can also see the warehouses these are made in. The best way to do it, is join the replica subreddit and message the reccomended sellers, you can have a coversation and you develop a relationship and theyre very open about it.
Some reps are for sure made in shady conditions without question. However I can tell you the process as my guy works in the nike/converse factory.
As you know, Nike/converse and Addidas ( and most others) dont actually make the shoes. They delegate to this buildhouses. They use good buildhouses. Theyre still very shady but have more liability as a company. What my guy does is build the shoes using the same parts (or cnc cut data) and becomes a direct rep seller, but will also design shoes like offering different colorways nike never made or using jordan 4 uppers with sb toe to straight up making franken shoes that only they carry. He is not employed by nike, hes employed by the buildhouse. If nike didnt wish to take advantage of the people in the buildshops and the work norms provided in these buildhouses, they could make their own, however, Nike does not do this because they do not want to have to pay thier workers more than they do at chineese buildshops and make an enviornment that would be up the American workplace standards. So what Nike does is monthly visits to assess conditions and quality control. However, these are scheduled so the buildshop can hide stuff and clean up nice for inspection, so Nike's liability takes a blind eye. So to me, I would honestly rather support the worker than the exploiting corperation. Even if he may not report it to taxes and is stealing or making spare parts from his factory for his own shoes. Nike is a parasite but I love their shoes.
But if you dont know where your reps are coiming from, you very well could be supporting very shady stuff. Often the cnc machine data gets shared and they can be made suspect buildhouses. And you can do the same by buying legit ones. If you see the stockx photo in the dhgate, those are made in the same buildhouse as Nike/converse.
Overall, I just am presenting you guys another less expensive option. You can say nah not for me, it dont feel right and I fully respect that point of view. I just would rather the money goes to the person who makes my shoes, plus if you develop a relationship with them, like I do, he can make dunks and J1s to whatever combo of colorways you want. Which i love cus gum soles are my fav. Cool?
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