[A. Pole]

The best labor rate for corporations: slave labor.

Free market disposable labor is cheaper. Slaves you need to feed well, house, make sure that they get enough rest, and care for them when they get sick. With commodity labor, burned out or disabled workers can be tossed out and replaced like a tire in a car.

[Taliesan]

What should American companies be forced to do for burned out or disabled workers?

[valkyrieanne]

Free market disposable labor is cheaper. Slaves you need to feed well, house, make sure that they get enough rest, and care for them when they get sick. With commodity labor, burned out or disabled workers can be tossed out and replaced like a tire in a car.

I don't think the Chinese have the same attitudes toward their slaves that American chattel slave owners had in the 19th century. There's a never-ending supply, and they are neither fed nor housed well, nor cared for.