Can’t wait for the shills to show up and defend this.
Forget the shills. Will the MSM pick this up?
There are lots of nations that had businesses that used to pay like this. They were among the best jobs available, and helped give people a an alternative to trudging behind a water buffalo.
In those nations, many jobs now pay much more, the next generations have better hope of education, and the manufacturing is much more skilled and high-value.
China’s problem is government, not the fact that the market for labor is cheap.
Unless people are enslaved to take these jobs, I have no problem at all.
Having started out my first job in Kentucky in 1947 at 10-cents an hour, these guys are ahead of me—starting out.
Here I am! What's their alternative?
I remember a number of years back when Kathy Lee Gifford and Wal Mart (I think it was Wal Mart) were under attack over the so-called sweatshops in Honduras that were employing women and children.
What those attacks conveniently left out was the fact that the children working there had absolutely no access to school facilities and the only alternative form of employment was to pick up a machete and head out to the sugar cane fields.
I've been there, I've seen it and my brother-in-law's family employs those same workers who are supplied by the sugarcane processing plants in the fall when harvesting is ready........The textile "sweat shops" are heaven compared to the alternative.
Thats just the way it is........
Where is the evidence that wage arbitrage is the result of work in a sweat shop?
The photos of Chinese toy manufacturers I’ve seen were clean and modern looking.
How’s that?
You suppose the poor little tykes should be fired then?
"Go starve and die in the street, little tyke, but at least you ain't being exploited."
Brilliant.