Wednesday, April 22, 2009

the amazing travel of my new shoes.

I am amazed at my new shoes.. I haven't gotten them yet but I did a UPS tracking on them and found out that they were made in Vietnam. Sent from Ho Chi Minh, to Hong Kong, to Alaska, to Nashville, and hopefully to me in New Jersey. Then I got to thinking about... how the hell do they make any money doing that... and then I realized.
Its pretty amazing…
I was thinking, I wonder if they make any money doing this…
But I guess they do…
They pay the guy in Vietnam 40 cents per shoe
The big wig in nam makes 3 bucks… he sends it on a mule and that guy makes 20 cents to bring the mule to the airport
Costs 2 bucks to send it on the plane from nam with all kinds of other crap headed for bed bath and beyond to hong kong…
Fed ex hong kong ships it on a jumbo jet full of other shittt headed for sams club for 2 bucks
A guy in Alaska scans it for ten bucks an hour,
Goes on fed ex plane with crap from hong kong, nam and china headed for Costco in Moorestown… stock guy at Costco gets paid another ten bucks an hour
Ups ships it to me for ten more bucks…
Nike makes 80 dollars profit…
The world works in mysterious ways.
Ceo of nike goes to Vietnam… finds 9 year old boy who made shoe. Feels bad. Gives him a ten dollar bill… takes him back to his hotel… has man/boy love to him…
Goes back home on private jet. Looks up boy on google, sends him to school for the rest of his childhood.
Is praised by coworkers, community, wife and kids as a great man… wins citizen of year award in his town.
thought i had a picture of the shoes... but i dont. doh!

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