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Buying from cheap places will help them get out of poverty though. Which would in turn solve most problems.
by z3t4 6y ago
Buying from cheap places will help them get out of poverty though. Which would in turn solve most problems.
- throwaway894345 6y agoIt only creates extreme inequality in both countries. In the wealthier country, managers make lots of money by outsourcing labor, causing the cost of labor in the wealthier country to plummet. In the poorer country, it creates a class of ultra-rich businessmen who rule over the ultra-poor laborers (and those laborers must remain ultra-poor otherwise the jobs would flow back to the laborers in the wealthier country). Not only that, but the poorer country isn't going to adhere to environmental standards of the wealthier country (absent coercion a la border adjustments), and so it basically becomes a way for businesses in the wealthier country to continue to enrich themselves by way of pollution (and otherwise mismanagement of environment).