Moving on to the heart of the matter, I am convinced that fewer people know, fewer people would be able to answer the question, for example, about who our money goes to in the clothing store or in the supermarket erstwhile buying very popular trousers, alleged jeans. I bet the vast majority of us don't realize the fact that half of the amount is taken by an indirect link serving the end customer, which is the store that sells us clothes. This means that the store sells us pants for twice the amount it spends on buying them at the warehouse. The 4th part of the said amount goes to the owner's account, 13 percent stays with the maker at the factory, 11 percent represents transport costs, and only 1 percent lands on the account or in the pocket of the seamstress that produced the product.
Another example concerns a cotton T-shirt, which costs PLN 69.50 in retail. Many would most likely think that the lion's share of this amount is the cost of natural material that is essential for the production of a product or transport, labour costs. However, this is not the case, as the cost of the natural material is only PLN 8; the cost of transport from Asia to Poland is PLN 3.45; the cost of working seamstress is PLN 0,50, the cost of working in the field is PLN 0.05. The owner of the brand collects his account as much as PLN 23, to the account of the trading company influences the most due to the fact that as much as PLN 34.50.
These figures talk for themselves and encourage reflection and thinking. Many of us are likely to be shocked due to the fact that it turns out that human work, whether it is seamstresses, is not a crucial part of the cost of the product, not to mention the individual in the field.
This leads to reflection on the value of the said product, which, according to the economist Oskar Lang, prof. of the University of Warsaw, who besides taught in the United States, is simply a socially essential time of work, essential to produce the product.