Shirts

In the news this week is the story of the building in Pakistan that collapsed. The building house garment workers who were making clothes sold mostly in the USA and Europe. The company neglected to take proper care of the building in order to save money so they could sell at a low price. Some here in the US are now blaming US companies for demanding such low prices and saying that these companies are partly responsible for the problem. I scanned the Internet but could not find any studies done in regards to the morality of purchase decisions by consumers. I wonder what would happened if a consumer was presented with two identical shirts one marked five dollars and made by slave labor in Pakistan and one marked seven dollars and made by responsible companies in Turkey.