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> That's obviously not a great situation. Yet we, as in American companies, vastly incentivize such systems by shipping trillions of dollars worth of production
by kenmicklas 8y ago
> That's obviously not a great situation. Yet we, as in American companies, vastly incentivize such systems by shipping trillions of dollars worth of production to China. So we pride ourselves on more humane standards, yet send trillions of dollars to the lowest common denominator on labor that's a hair's breadth above slavery? This never made any sense to me.
That's because American capitalists _don't_ value human and workers rights. And to a large degree, the American labor movement doesn't either - as long as it can escape the oppression of the American capitalists at home and have cheap consumer goods as a result of the export of capital to poorer countries.
The only ways to alleviate this within the capitalist system is to either decrease the mobility of capital, or increase the mobility of labor (i.e. immigration). Unfortunately, neither of these are in the immediate interests of the American working class.
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