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11/06/11(Sun)16:39 No.8082016>>8082005
nonononono.
(sweatshop
critics) say that we shouldn't buy from countries like Vietnam because
of its labor standards, they've got it all wrong. They're saying: "Look,
you are too poor to trade with us. And that means that we won't trade
with you. We won't buy your goods until you're as rich as we are."
That's totally backwards. These countries won't get rich without being
able to export goods.
When asked about the working condition in
sweatshops, proponents say that although wages and working conditions
may appear inferior by the standards of developed nations, they are
actually improvements over what the people in developing countries had
before. It is said that if jobs in such factories did not improve their
workers' standard of living, those workers would not have taken the jobs
when they appeared. It is also often pointed out that, unlike in the
industrialized world, the sweatshops are not replacing high-paying jobs.
Rather, sweatshops offer an improvement over subsistence farming and
other back-breaking tasks, or even prostitution, trash picking, or
starvation by unemployment.
They don't have the money for luxury.(yet) |
