Consumers' Duties

<p>CONSUMERS DUTIES

Often buyers are only concerned with satisfying their own requirements as

near as possible and as cheaply as they can. This way of going about the

business is to shirk one¹s duties. What are the duties of an effective

consumer or buyer? When buying an article of everyday use one has to take

account of the full repercussions of one¹s transaction.

1) &#160;One should know where the article comes from,

2) &#160;Who makes the article?

3) &#160;Under what conditions do the workers live and work?

4) &#160;What proportions of the final price do they get as wages?

5) &#160;How is the rest of the money distributed?

6) &#160;How is the article produced?

7) &#160;How does the industry fit into the national economy?

8) &#160;What relation has it to the other nations?</p>