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I'd suggest that this is less black versus white than it appears. In buying products made in China, you're helping to raise a huge number of people out of crus
by CWuestefeld 6y ago
I'd suggest that this is less black versus white than it appears.
In buying products made in China, you're helping to raise a huge number of people out of crushing poverty. I've traveled through China across 25 years, and seen how their lives have improved, yet some are still trying to eke out subsistence, farming what looked like a 1-acre plot with an ox.
Yes, the CCP is evil. But the moral calculus is never simple, I don't think we can simply assume that the net effect of purchasing from China is morally bad. It does enable some bad things, but it also helps quite a lot of people.
- fakedang 6y agoWe're funding the upliftment of Chinese citizens, at the cost of the millions of unemployed in our own home countries. And that according to you is still a good thing? I'm a firm believer in free trade and all that, as long as trade partners are of the same ideological bend, even if flawed. Not the country that's actively looking to rivalldestabilize every other Western democracy through backroom dealings.