[colorado tanker]

Hobbs accurately described the lives of ordinary people before the industrial revolution as "nasty, brutish and short." Yet we still have these pseudo-intellectual fools who continue to decry the economic forces that are giving more and more people around the world unprecedented health and lifespans and relatively comfortable lives.

He ought to ask some farmers in India or Indonesia if they'd rather continue in grinding rural poverty or make twice the wage in a Nike "sweatshop." Nike wins every time.

[Wormwood]

He ought to ask some farmers in India or Indonesia if they'd rather continue in grinding rural poverty or make twice the wage in a Nike "sweatshop." Nike wins every time.

Now ask those same factory workers if they would prefer the current system or one where they can organize for greater benefits and standards of living.

If it was good enough for us, after all, it is good enough for them.

[antiRepublicrat]

He ought to ask some farmers in India or Indonesia if they'd rather continue in grinding rural poverty or make twice the wage in a Nike "sweatshop." Nike wins every time.

I had a naive friend who was writing an economics paper for college, and he was doing it on third-world sweatshops, full of damning pictures and "they earn $6 a day" junk based on what his professor had been spewing.

I took his $6 a day, ran it against the average wage earned in that country, and it turned out to be a far above average wage. He was impressed, but he wouldn't change his paper because he knew his teacher was expecting a capitalism-bashing paper, and my friend needed the good grade.