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"We just don't care enough. The amount of apathy the average person in a developed country has for the rest of their fellow man is astounding if you stop and th
by dahwolf 4y ago
"We just don't care enough. The amount of apathy the average person in a developed country has for the rest of their fellow man is astounding if you stop and think about it for a bit."
I wasn't going for that angle. I wasn't talking about the labor part. I accept that labor competes internationally. I have no moral right to a higher pay for the same work.
That's not the issue. The issue is that it shouldn't be possible to ship an oak tree across the entire planet for practically nothing. The true cost is not nothing, it has to be enormous. The "natural" pricing is heavily distorted by subsidies, trade deals, lack of taxation, dismissing all externalities, state sponsorship, the like.
None of this has anything to do with fair competition based on labor. It's a rigged game.
- nostromo 4y agoYou see this all the time in the US. I can get an item shipped to me from China on Aliexpress for a few cents or even free. The same package shipped to me from my own city costs several dollars. Business interest in the US totally screw over local producers and few politicians seem to care.
- dirtyid 4y ago>it shouldn't be possible to ship an oak tree across the entire planet for practically nothing Why not? Modern lumber carrier vessels are massive. Optimizing for maritime bulk cargo transport to ship across world economically vs western wages seems very feasible.
- FeloniousHam 4y agoIs it also possible that there isn't much competing cargo from Belgium back to China? If not for tree trunks, the ships/trains go back empty?