Retribution not enough

[Tim May]

On Sunday, October 21, 2001, at 09:03 PM, jamesd at echeque.com wrote:

>     --
> 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.

We should "close down" the horrible sweatshops in Asia, India, South 
America, and other hellholes. (Africa is not counted because they are 
below sweat shop standards.)

We will then see what 2.6 billion people have to eat.

Things will be less crowded in Asia and South America, that's for sure.


--Tim May
"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any 
member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to 
others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient 
warrant." --John Stuart Mill