i wouldn't expect less from an economist. just hear his paradoxes: 1st he quotes: "First of all, even if we could assure the workers in Third World export indu

i wouldn't expect less from an economist. just hear his paradoxes: 1st he quotes: "First of all, even if we could assure the workers in Third World export industries of higher wages and better working conditions, this would do nothing for the peasants, day laborers, scavengers, and so on who make up the bulk of these countries’ populations. " tl;dr: even if you raise those workers pay, it will do nothing for the other workers in the country 2nd he concludes: "Wages paid to manufacturing workers in China are not determined by the productivity of those specific workers. They are not determined by US wages, by the profits that Apple makes nor even by the good intentions of the creative types that purchase Apple products. They are determined by the wages paid by other jobs in China and that is itself determined by the average level of productivity across the Chinese economy." tl;dl: the workers are paid poorly because everyone in the coutry is badly paid. see what he did there? he just used the cause of the problem as a consequence and dismissed it! boycott apple (and others!) so that those specific workers wage will rise to please public opinion, and with that, the wage of everyone else will also rise!