Several of you have reproved me for wearing cheap, obviously sweatshop-produced shoes. I take your point. It is not of course that this never occurred to me. Rather, it's that, when it comes to shoes specifically, I just kind of assume that they're all sweatshop-produced, and that the difference between $8 shoes and $80 shoes (or $280 shoes) is not that more of my coin goes to the poor Malaysian soul who actually cobbled them together, but into the pockets of the people who get to put their brand name on them.
Am I wrong? If so, disabuse me. Obviously there's some Web site out there that advises on conscientious pedi-consumption. So clue me in. If there's a reasonably affordable brand that gives its workers health-care benefits and so on, I'll throw in. But all the better if they make slip-on sneakers, without laces, which saves me a good 12 seconds every morning. Think of it. Every morning. Over a lifetime, it adds up, people.
