Editor:
Lately, while reading of that terrible clothing factory fire in Bangladesh, I recall that George Orwell wrote: “We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are ‘enlightened’ all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our ‘enlightenment,’ demands that the robbery shall continue.”
Albert Einstein said it differently. He wrote: “In long intervals I have expressed an opinion on public issues whenever they appeared to be so bad and unfortunate that silence would have made me guilty of complicity.”
We know inwardly that when we buy a shirt from a big-box store for $9 or less, the person who made it was not making even a starvation wage by any standards. I suppose we are all a bit guilty of complicity.
E.A. Graf, White Rock
