Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 30, 1997
May 29, 1997
May 31, 1997
Transcript:
Kim: I think what makes me maddest is how easy it would be for Nike to do the right thing...do you know if you doubled the salaries of Nike's 30,000 employees here, the annual payroll would be about what the company pays Michael Jordan? Mike: Oh, c'mon, Kim, get real. Nike can't pay their Vietnamese work force what they pay Michael Jordan. Kim: Why not? Mike: Michael would want more. He's very competitive.
And there is capitalism in a nutshell.