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You know the rest of the world subsides pretty much everything except food for Americans via cheap manufacturing labor, right? Why shouldn't the rest of the wo
by Paul-Craft 3y ago
You know the rest of the world subsides pretty much everything except food for Americans via cheap manufacturing labor, right? Why shouldn't the rest of the world get its due?
- HDThoreaun 3y agoPeople agreeing to work for lower wages than they do in the US is not a subsidy.
- Paul-Craft 3y agoThen neither is water being sold at less than full, free market value. You can't logically have it both ways.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoThe overseas are selling their labor at full market value. Not sure what you’re implying.
- Paul-Craft 3y agoI'm saying I don't give a damn if or whether they're "selling their labor at full market value." If that "full market value" is $2/hour or something, then, yes, they absolutely are subsidizing the product they're making. And you know there's a huge power imbalance between employer and employee that's at work here as well. Magnify that times a bunch when that employer is a rich, overseas company that can offer what would be starvation wages at home, but princely wages for the folks in Asia, South America, or Africa.
- toomim 3y agoWater prices are subsidized by the california government for agriculture. Labor prices are not subsidized by china.