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> outsourcing manufacturing abroad to sweatshop zones > importation of cheap and often undocumented labor from poor countries > That's the essence of what its
by bradleyjg 4y ago
> outsourcing manufacturing abroad to sweatshop zones
> importation of cheap and often undocumented labor from poor countries
> That's the essence of what its dectractors (including myself) call the neoliberal economic model.
This is the economic nationalist (i.e. Trumpist) critique dressed up for polite company. You and the rest of the economic nationalists have no plan to make the lives of people in “sweatshop zones” or those desperately escaping them to the west, better. You are attempting to exploit pathos on their behalf to make their lives actively worse by shutting down the movement of goods and labor.
At least Trump is honest about it.
- matt2019 4y agoYour counterpoint assumes there’s a win-win that’s possible. But sometimes that’s wishful thinking. Imperialists have always convinced themselves that they’re actually helping the peoples they intervene on, but they’re often wrong.
- bradleyjg 4y agoAnd the migrants are they worse off too? Is anyone allowed to decide for himself what his best option is?