How Fair Trade Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2013

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The West has gotten rich off the backs of underpaid labor living elsewhere; people who are dedicated to Fair Trade feel it's time people at a disadvantage should stop being exploited. The concept is simple - just pay workers fairly for their labor.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.2	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from Howstuffworks.com.
0:34.8	Hey, you welcome to The Podcast.
0:42.7	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and this is the 500 something time
0:47.7	that I said that.
0:48.7	Oh yeah, we're not into the 60s yet are we?
0:51.3	No, no, it's going to be a little while.
0:53.0	What do we mid-fives?
0:54.0	Yeah, I don't know.
0:55.4	We hit 500 word around January and January.
0:58.4	It's a lot of knowledge we're dulling out for pre-bugs.
1:02.2	Yeah, we're in like 520 maybe.
1:07.2	Oh really?
1:08.2	Yeah, I thought it might be more than that.
1:10.1	You doing okay?
1:11.1	I'm great.
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