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I would not go to china to do business. I won't do business with Maoists, and I don't care how cheap their labor is. And I don't particularly care that the woma
by tathougies 8y ago
I would not go to china to do business. I won't do business with Maoists, and I don't care how cheap their labor is. And I don't particularly care that the woman arrested is the daughter of a prominent Chinese man. I don't expect the United States government to look out for the interest of prominent chinese citizens.
> There won’t be a single senior US technology executive going to China for the next week or two, if not longer
Good. Not only is it an environmental disaster to travel to China frequently, continuously producing goods in a state that is the top contributor to global pollution is hardly a good thing. Not to mention the illiberalism.
- 5trokerac3 8y agoYeah, why offshore your cheap labor when you can get an American non-violent drug offender to build it for less than $1 an hour. Then you can slap that sweet Made In The USA label on your product too. /s
- tathougies 8y agoThis is a rather low-effort comment, which sets up a false dichotomy.
- 5trokerac3 8y agoIt's far from a false dichotomy. Non-violent drug offenses are the modern day equivalent of vagrancy laws and private enterprise making use of prison labor the equivalent of the chain gang. Just because China is unquestionably more authoritarian doesn't mean that we don't have similar arrangements in America.
- jermaustin1 8y agoHow does one make use of prison labor? Asking for a friend...
- tathougies 8y agoSure, but someone who's principled enough to not do business in China is likely principled enough to not do business with private prisons / other cheap labor schemes. That's why your response sets up a false dichotomy; it pre-supposes that anyone not using China for cheap labor is necessarily looking for cheap labor somewhere else.