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> Pretty much all this summarizes as "yes, it's valuable work to the individual". Individuals are making up the societies. Few dozen of people working relative
by KptMarchewa 3y ago
> Pretty much all this summarizes as "yes, it's valuable work to the individual".
Individuals are making up the societies. Few dozen of people working relatively high income, are lifting whole countries up - that's how globalization have worked.
>But that doesn't make it not exploitative. For the same reasons that wealthy places don't generally allow child labor and have worker safety and environmental protections... but outsourced stuff frequently does not. The companies outsourcing are clearly aware of this, but most do or allow things that are blatantly illegal where they're headquartered.
Now you're not actually accusing them of anything, but _comparing_ to other potential bad things.
Those jobs aren't pleasant - as is working 12 hour shift in an ironworks - but they are damn better than subsistence farming and dying when there's draught one year.
And after those bad jobs, come progressively better ones.
- Groxx 3y agoNo, I'm rather explicitly accusing them. >most do or allow things that are blatantly illegal where they're headquartered. Much of this would not be possible on a fair playing field. It happens because the companies outsourcing wield immensely disproportionate power, so they can get away with it. If "maybe we shouldn't let them kill people and dump the trash in their water supply" means slowing things down, I suspect it would be a net benefit, even after losing most of the positives it brings in. I recognize it's complex and opinions differ, of course. Not claiming I alone am right or that my opinion won't change.