The Supply Chain Has a Name
The shirt you are wearing was made by someone. Not by a “supply chain.” Not by a “labor market.” By a person, with a name, who woke up this morning in a place you have never been and went to work in conditions you have never seen.
I start here because the language of global commerce is designed to make this person disappear. “Supply chain” is an abstraction. “Sourcing” is an abstraction. “Labor costs” is an abstraction. The person sewing your shirt for a wage that does not cover food and rent is not an abstraction. She is real, and the system that pays her that wage is a choice, not a natural law.