PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • February 22, 2021
What we pay at the time of purchase isn’t the only cost of goods made in countries where workers are paid very low wages, who have minimal benefits and minimal rights and where companies have minimal (if any) regard or legal obligations relative to polluting. Demanding a $15-an-hour wage, while consuming goods made by people earning $1 an hour, in an environmentally adverse manner, doesn’t work very long. ~ Pete Wilson, Cumberland