huge clothing companies all over the US frequently hire illegal immigrants which they use as an excuse to pay them well below minimum wage for ungodly hours in inhumane conditions if they even pay them AT ALL
but sony's the worst company ever for being a little pricey??? which i don't even think is all that true compared to their competition either
Sony is actually pretty awful. These clothing companies in the US that you talk about still have safety standards that they have to follow. Clothing companies in other countries do not. Sony built several factories in mexico for nafta, and when they later saw that they could move their factories to poor eastern asia, they did that, closing the mexican factories without so much as cleaning up. The toxic chemicals that they left in mexico are slowly killing the former employees. now, sony is creating its wonderful products using child labor and worse labor conditions then mexico.
what im trying to say is, nothing that is made in america, no matter how shitty the regulations of the business/industry (take mining for example, with the mining company that would rather pay fines than make their coal mines safe for workers) even comes close to the horrors that people face every day due to the wrath of sony.
and also, the chemicals that fabric/clothing/textile/etc companies use is bad, but it doesnt TOUCH the toxicity of panasonic, sony, toshiba, etc