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To: Havoc
Dpwiener Wherever did you get the idea to associate India with "educated slave labor"?

Havoc Might have been from guys like me who've been calling it that for 10 years. Or it may just be from gut reaction that pretty much everyone has. That's what it is. Slaves without chains. Pay them a pittance, easy to control and easy to dodge the tax system. It plunged us into war once, so the government seems to have decided twice might not be a bad thing.

How can they be slaves if they're paid? How can they be slaves if they can resign anytime they want? How do you say it is a pittance when it's a king's ransom back in their home countries?
103 posted on 04/28/2004 1:29:13 AM PDT by Cronos (W2K4!)
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To: Cronos
How can they be slaves if they're paid? How can they be slaves if they can resign anytime they want? How do you say it is a pittance when it's a king's ransom back in their home countries?

Simple, We have a cost of living in this country associated with the market we built as a nation. The market we built has given us that high cost of living but has also allowed us to enjoy the fruits of our labors. We produce for our market. So do they. But you disown people in this market in favor of cheaper labor outside this market and ship the product back to this market because you don't like the rules here. You're essentially telling those people they aren't good enough to earn what we earn here. They couldn't come into our market and live on what you want to pay them to produce for our market. In terms of our market, it's sweatshop labor, slave labor.

Would you do your job for 50cents an hour? Would it be fair? Could you live on it? I expect answers to those questions because they seem to be questions you all want to avoid because it lays your arguments bare. You outsource to produce for this market and pay people less than what a retail worker earns to do a skilled job. That destroys the worth of an education in this country. And it is not competition.. which is why business likes it so much. Those people in india are being paid, in some cases, 1/10th what workers here in the states would be paid. Lower productivity, bad product; but, higher profits. They have no rights in our system; but, they're being conned into working for 1/10th the going rate here because it's a kings ransom in their own economy where the rules are different. It's cheating the system and taking advantage of a people in order to disown fellow countrymen and destroy their wage base - all in the name of higher profit. Not just profit.

If these businesses don't want to work within our system honestly, then I see no reason to honor the business licenses or articles of incorporation they hold in this market. There are rules, laws and moral responsibilities that go with living in a free republic. Not betraying your neighbor is among them.

107 posted on 04/28/2004 8:57:48 AM PDT by Havoc ("The line must be drawn here. This far and no further!")
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