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In reply to the discussion: Both China and India are Amazing Stories of Poverty Reduction... We Should Stop Demonizing Them [View all]HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)I've seen Manufacturing Landscapes. The workers put up with brutal hours, stringent QA checks, militarized cordoning in groups, pollution, e-waste, etc. . . . all for the privilege of living as a slave. We actually feel sorry for the workers. It's the executives on both sides of the fence that need to be taken to task; not only for shifting labor overseas to make a greater buck, but advocating slavery to the nations they shift the work to.
Nobody's "demonizing" workers. We're demonizing the practice itself, which has brought more hardship to every nation involved while inflating the coffers of the overlords.
There's also this buying into the logic of the NEED to offshore labor. We're talking the differences between mere "profit" and "ever-competitive Mega Profit". A system that depends on perpetual wealth, growth, resources, education, etc in a world where none of that exists . . . well, I don't need to tell you how that's going to end.