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I think you're attacking a straw man here. Chinese and Indian people can certainly compete with European people, and they do it everyday. But they can do it fro
by pnako 7y ago
I think you're attacking a straw man here. Chinese and Indian people can certainly compete with European people, and they do it everyday. But they can do it from China and India.
- huffmsa 7y agoThe GP thinks its about "getting even", as if China and India were naive, noble backwaters the devious Europeans pulled the wool over and secretly exploited in 1700s. When really, they got out competed in trade and on the battlefield by the Europeans.
- rock_v 7y agoSo, it’s fair if a European gets out competed in the labor market today.
- huffmsa 7y agoOf course it is. But it's not the European companies getting outcompeted, it's the individual laborers. So it's equally as fair for those laborers (voters) to say "no more importing cheap competition". The UK already has. It's incredibly difficult to bring in foreign employees. Edit, addendum, ignore the part about companies, though you'd said European firms.
- palerdot 7y agoBy the governments and private corporations (like east India company) supported by the people ... Your comment implies as if bunch of people decided to colonise the entire world outside Europe on their own whims ...