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I ought have phrased it "why many people who shop at Wal-Mart in the U.S. and other 'first-world' countries where manufacturing and some other sectors have been
by rue 17y ago
I ought have phrased it "why many people who shop at Wal-Mart in the U.S. and other 'first-world' countries where manufacturing and some other sectors have been decimated are poor in the first place."
My view on the poverty-reducing effects of globalisation are somewhat less optimistic than your portrayal.
- eru 17y ago> U.S. [...] where manufacturing [...] [has] been decimated [...] Comments like this always remind me of Germany during the dot-com boom --- when people complained that the country was stuck in an industrial past and had missed the train to the service-economy future.