ME vs. Garment Workers; Jason Kidd vs. ME

By Kelsey | September 20th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

The average garment worker I met in Asia makes my clothes for somewhere around $60/month, or $720/year. Let’s say I make $30,000/year (not counting my stipend from my sugar momma wife). Their annual income is 2.4% of mine. Crazy, huh? I’m rich!

Now let’s move to the factory in Perry, NY, I visited that makes jerseys for the NBA. Let’s say that the workers making the uniforms make $30,000/year just like me. While at the factory, I saw Jason Kidd’s name being stitched on his uniform. Kidd makes $17.2 million/year. The workers that make his jersey earn about .14% of his annual salary.

I’m not sure that these comparisons are immediately useful to my purposes here. But what it makes me think is…

Damn! Those NBA dudes are loaded.

I live at a level of comfort that the workers in Asia can’t imagine. Jason Kidd lives at a comfort-level that I can’t imagine.

I’m not sure if I can fully appreciate how good I’ve got it; there’s no way Jason Kidd can.