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This is great news, and is what progress looks like. Even if you look back towards the start of these factories, the jobs they have been offering are better th
by jwongpp 14y ago
This is great news, and is what progress looks like.
Even if you look back towards the start of these factories, the jobs they have been offering are better than subsistence farming. They're not pleasant by Western standards, and they're not something you'd want people to have to do, but they are progress. That's why foxconn has no trouble finding staff.
Now, as these industries have been built where seeing standards improve. This is progress, and this is capitalism lifting hundreds of thousands (if not millions) out of poverty.
- henrikschroder 14y agohttp://www.spectator.co.uk/the-week/leading-article/8789981/glad-tidings/ http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-week/leading-article/8789981/... "In 1990, the UN announced Millennium Development Goals, the first of which was to halve the number of people in extreme poverty by 2015. It emerged this year that the target was met in 2008. Yet the achievement did not merit an official announcement, presumably because it was not achieved by any government scheme but by the pace of global capitalism." For some, this is a very uncomfortable fact.
- altcognito 14y agoThat's because some draw the conclusion that capitalism does not exist with a progressive tax rate, environmental laws, unions, or universal health care. It's a ridiculous proposition, but that's what some people believe.