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The complete unhinged insanity to pine for a _modern_ scrip town in India owned by a Chinese company that makes disposable consumer goods mostly for The United
by akira2501 3y ago
The complete unhinged insanity to pine for a _modern_ scrip town in India owned by a Chinese company that makes disposable consumer goods mostly for The United States.
Which is all bad enough, but then to paint historical company towns as enduring well meaning projects of generous "philanthrocapitalists" without honestly considering their negative consequences or the fact that none of them would legally be allowed to exist in this country is vomit inducing.
Another morally vaporous article by an apologist for the neo-colonialists, Andrew Hill.
- cscurmudgeon 3y agoFoxconn is not Chinese. It is Taiwanese. Your stance is essentially: “how dare they give jobs and homes to those workers!” Company towns are like baking a fancy baked good. If someone else gets it wrong or you get it wrong, doesn’t mean you can’t try again.
- akira2501 3y ago> Your stance is essentially: “how dare they give jobs and homes to those workers!” Precisely. Workers get jobs and earn money. Companies stay out of the rest. > Company towns are like baking a fancy baked good. What's that old phrase.. "to make a good omelette you have to break a few eggs?" The import of which could never be greater. These are workers lives you're playing around with, without supervision, and often with an underprivileged and thus less educated class that may not be sophisticated enough to understand the type of exchange they're entering into. > doesn’t mean you can’t try again. Well.. it is India. There are billions. Your failed experiments cost you nothing; apparently, and neither are you obligated to take note of history.