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The biggest reduction in global poverty we've seen is due to outsourcing to China. Don't you care about starving Chinese peasants?
by wbl 8y ago
The biggest reduction in global poverty we've seen is due to outsourcing to China. Don't you care about starving Chinese peasants?
- pkaye 8y agoI'm sure there are plenty of billionaires in China that can do more for them.
- jarfil 8y agoDepends. Are they so desperate that they want to go to war, or are they rather becoming more of a middle class that wants to play the newest video games?
- tomohawk 8y agoBefore WW I, France and Germany were each others largest trading partners. Trade and prosperity are orthogonal to war.
- notfromhere 8y agoTrade wasn't anywhere as big as it is now; most trade was within internal colonies, not externally.
- Tsubasachan 8y agoHow many wars has China instigated in the last 30 years though? Seems to me the region is shifting to accommodate the new power balance quite nicely.
- oblio 8y agoI'm not sure about video games, but they do seem to crave mobile phones and luxury goods :D
- baldfat 8y ago> due to outsourcing to China No it is the demand for better working conditions and wages. That helps the local Chinese and American workers. Oh that's right labor unions are evil????
- yostrovs 8y agoThe demand existed long before the outsourcing. There aren't really labor unions in China.
- eiaoa 8y ago> The biggest reduction in global poverty we've seen is due to outsourcing to China. Don't you care about starving Chinese peasants? Chinese peasants were starving because of bad Chinese domestic policies, not because of a lack of globalization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine.