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It's the same sort of thinking that has a certain political party opposing free trade agreements out of a fear that it will bankrupt manufacturers using ineffic
by patdennis 14y ago
It's the same sort of thinking that has a certain political party opposing free trade agreements out of a fear that it will bankrupt manufacturers using inefficient processes.
If by 'inefficient processes' you mean 'workers who are paid a living wage', then yes.
As a general rule I support free trade, but I think you're misrepresenting the concerns coming from the left about free trade.
- cglace 14y agoAs with most things a 'living wage' is context dependent and changes as society changes their ideas of what people need to 'live'.
- batista 14y agoAnd as other things, substinence wages are not context dependent, and are very common in places which "free trade" proponents tout. Plus, their arguments which amount to "working in a sweatshop for our cheap shoes is doing them a favor, because otherwise they'd have no jobs at all" I always found as mere justification for the continuation of slavery and colonization in modern terms.