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They take those jobs because their other options are worse. It is a way out of poverty for many. No poor country is going to get rich without passing through a
by twblalock 4y ago
They take those jobs because their other options are worse. It is a way out of poverty for many. No poor country is going to get rich without passing through a phase of low-wage semi-poverty (unless they find a ton of oil under their ground).
- noduerme 4y ago>> unless they find a ton of oil under their ground And even then... https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691159638/the-oil-curse https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691159638/th... [edit] better link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse#Enclave_effects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse#Enclave_effects
- eddiewithzato 4y agoThose jobs are only causing more inequality by propping up a wealthy slave owner class in their country. Only winners are the CEOs who do sell this service to the west. Without them that country can happily live within their means.
- twblalock 4y agoLook at what happened in China over the past several decades, after the Chinese government embraced international trade and market economics. The average person there is much better off now. Hundreds of millions of people who had been trapped in subsistence poverty for many generations have been lifted into a much higher standard of living. It's such a drastic change in standard of living that it's indisputable.