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Corporations need the cheap repressed labor as much as China needs US Dollars. It's the perverse incentives of capitalism. Quality of life and human rights crus
by Klinky 7y ago
Corporations need the cheap repressed labor as much as China needs US Dollars. It's the perverse incentives of capitalism. Quality of life and human rights crusades are a potential byproduct of capitalism, not the goal, nor in anyway guaranteed. Maybe you'll hear some corp heads beat the anti-China drum, but they'll silently be reviewing their quarterly earnings report to make sure overseas labor expenses aren't eroding profit margins.
- yters 7y agoCheap labor does not require brutal repression, massive concentration camps, nor organ harvesting and execution of dissidents. Cheap labor is just a function of cost of living imbalance, and is available in many non repressive regimes. If we eliminated the oppressive CCP, we would still have massive amounts of cheap labor in China, just like we do in India.