Retribution not enough

[jamesd at echeque.com]

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On 20 Oct 2001, at 16:31, Jim Choate wrote:
> What it takes to have reasonable living standards and 
> sufficient resources to help ones children do better than 
> themselves. The reality is that these sweatshops do exist, 
> that they do exploit the workers, and that they are 
> specifically managed to keep the workers from exploiting 
> economic, social, and educational resources. Why? Because 
> if the producers allow this behaviour they put themselves 
> out of business.

 Commie bullshit.

They are not poor because western capitalists are hiring
them.  They are poor because western capitalists are
prevented from hiring them.

Closing down the "sweatshops" makes third world people
poorer, not richer.  The poorest asian countries are those
that tightly controlled their economies and excluded foreign
enterprises, notably India, Vietnam, Nepal, and Burma.

The richest are those places that a few decades ago were
supposedly being oppressed for sweatshop labor by the evil
capitalists -- Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan.

Today the "sweatshops" are primarily in markedly less
capitalist places, notably Vietnam.


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