Marti Gra made in China

Marti Gra made in China is a documentary about where the beads thrown at the annual Marti Gra festival in New Orleans come from and who makes them. The workers in China work eat and live in more or less a prison looking compound in mainland China. Though to them this is better than the alternative, which is no work, as westerners we see their working conditions and pay to be very bad in comparison to our own. The workers to 12 to 14 hour days with a 30 to one hour lunch that they are encouraged to work through. They have impossible quotas to meet on a daily basis that determines their pay and are not allowed to talk while they work. To us as westerners this is a unimaginable circumstance to work in and in fact we pay easily $1-$5 for the beads they made which is as much as a months earnings for them. To add to this we just throw the beads away. In the documentary neither the American or the Chinese knew for sure what the documentary was about besides the beads. But when told the American public disliked the beads a bit and didn't feel as free wheeling with them as they did before. But when the Chinese workers were told what was done with the beads and how they were used they were over come with giggles and disbelief. Stepping back from the film which showed the contrast between the owners living conditions and the workers, we see a very sharp contrast in the owner and the workers, but is it so much different from America? Here the CEO's make tens and hundreds of millions of dollars while the floor guy makes just mabey $40,000. In china the CEO makes a couple million Yen and his workers may make a couple thousand. After watching the film I don't think we can compare these two societies like this because they are so different. To me its a bit like asking why won't the cat fetch the stick.