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That’s the power of slave labour. Global economy is really modern day slavery. When you are making trillions in USD in the USA, paying someone in china $2 a day

That’s the power of slave labour. Global economy is really modern day slavery. When you are making trillions in USD in the USA, paying someone in china $2 a day would’ve been an Egyptian pharaohs dream.

canadianfella 3y ago
Calling it slave labour is an insult to the people who had to live with actual slavery.
- brvsft 3y ago
  The people who flagged this comment must believe that someone working at McDonald's for low wages is the same as someone being held as property, their family members terrorized, raped, beaten, whipped, murdered, etc. at the whim of their legal owners.
  - smoldesu 3y ago
    > someone being held as property, their family members terrorized, raped, beaten, whipped, murdered, etc. at the whim of their legal owners. Which is coincidentally quite similar to the treatment of North Korean and Chinese penal workers. Russian labor camps are pretty far up there too. Many Foxconn factories have armed guards, but it's not to keep people out...
Urahandystar 3y ago
Yup nowadays we import the product not the slaves.
- manishsharan 3y ago
  >>Yup nowadays we import the product not the slaves. I think you may be undermining what slavery was . I have met folks who work in workshops in India that export stuff to USA and other developed nations. Those workers make a whole lot more money than their neighbors who produce for the domestic market and they have better working conditions. Their overall quality of life, while nowhere close to G8 standards, is so much better. And their community benefits from their increased wages.
roenxi 3y ago
Those "slaves" have generally become quite wealthy. The median wage in Taiwan is close to the UK (it has been higher in the past), and China has moved out of poverty and steadily improving which is a pretty reasonable proxy for all of Asia (India has some catching up to do, but they'll get there). This is the same tired argument that was made when the US pushed these jobs off the continent - if the very low wage jobs are allowed exist; eventually enough wealth will be generated that nobody needs to do them. Those sweatshops are in fact a path to prosperity. In some sense it is a cosmic win that all the capital was developed in Asia because they needed it more, but that probably wasn't the sort of charity that policymakers intended at the time.
nharada 3y ago
Calling Taiwanese semiconductor workers “slave labor” may be the funniest take I’ve seen all week. Have you been to Taiwan??

canadianfella 3y ago

Calling it slave labour is an insult to the people who had to live with actual slavery.

brvsft 3y ago
The people who flagged this comment must believe that someone working at McDonald's for low wages is the same as someone being held as property, their family members terrorized, raped, beaten, whipped, murdered, etc. at the whim of their legal owners.
- smoldesu 3y ago
  > someone being held as property, their family members terrorized, raped, beaten, whipped, murdered, etc. at the whim of their legal owners. Which is coincidentally quite similar to the treatment of North Korean and Chinese penal workers. Russian labor camps are pretty far up there too. Many Foxconn factories have armed guards, but it's not to keep people out...

Urahandystar 3y ago

Yup nowadays we import the product not the slaves.

manishsharan 3y ago
>>Yup nowadays we import the product not the slaves. I think you may be undermining what slavery was . I have met folks who work in workshops in India that export stuff to USA and other developed nations. Those workers make a whole lot more money than their neighbors who produce for the domestic market and they have better working conditions. Their overall quality of life, while nowhere close to G8 standards, is so much better. And their community benefits from their increased wages.

roenxi 3y ago

Those "slaves" have generally become quite wealthy. The median wage in Taiwan is close to the UK (it has been higher in the past), and China has moved out of poverty and steadily improving which is a pretty reasonable proxy for all of Asia (India has some catching up to do, but they'll get there). This is the same tired argument that was made when the US pushed these jobs off the continent - if the very low wage jobs are allowed exist; eventually enough wealth will be generated that nobody needs to do them. Those sweatshops are in fact a path to prosperity. In some sense it is a cosmic win that all the capital was developed in Asia because they needed it more, but that probably wasn't the sort of charity that policymakers intended at the time.

nharada 3y ago

Calling Taiwanese semiconductor workers “slave labor” may be the funniest take I’ve seen all week. Have you been to Taiwan??