Then as a capitalist, I reply: "It may be evil, but it sure beats the hell out of spending 29.99 for the same chair made by Americans. I get to benefit by spending fewer dollars to get the same product. If the Chinese don't mind being opressed (The counter-revolution is dead, Jim!), why should I care?"
If we can't come up with better ways to build products cheaper, maybe we need to eliminate the labor unions who, by their mere existence, make products more costly and lower gas taxes to make shipping goods less expensive.
Most importantly, doesn't being anti-WalMart put one on the same side of the argument as the anti-business DU types?
Walmart is just an example. We could use any store for that matter. I agree with you on the labor unions but slave labor is not the answer. China is in the middle of one of the largest and fastest military buildups in history. We are the largest consumer economy in the world and we are building that military. One day our sons or grandsons will die because we wanted to buy everything cheap.
I guess, as a good capitalist, you would have preferred selling produce to the British in 1776 for good silver, to selling produce to American toops for continental paper.
While we're on the subject of silver dollars, would you make thirty pieces of silver.......
There's a limit to the benefits of pure economic gain, even in a capitalist system.
Sending your dollars overseas to help arm a dangerous enemy is one of them.