Nobody is stopping you.I would rather pay more money for items and own less than have a bunch of cheap junk, personally
So you want to ban international trade, at least until they can pay US wages?Yes, we should buy local when we can, but we as a country shouldn’t tolerate American companies exporting their jobs overseas in places where people are hardly paid anything and conditions are horrible. I would rather pay more money for items and own less than have a bunch of cheap junk, personally.
ROFL,RuthAnne you are sounding very privileged.
It is pretty easy to avoid wanting to acknowledge that big companies absolutely take advantage of poor comminities. But let’s be real here. Of course out of desperation someone will take a job for little money over nothing. The company knows this and takes full advantage of it. Let’s not pretend that Bill Gates created lovely factories with clean and safe conditions for his products. He would not have become the billionaire he did without using this to his advantage.
I suspect you have limited experience in these locations.Many of the conditions people work in, in second and third world countries, aren’t good. And it’s not just that the economy is lower so they can be paid lower. They aren’t paid enough to live on even by their country’s standards many times. So they end up working many more hours than people work here in order to make ends meet.
No not at all. I just don’t want American companies using this type of labor. I am very pro-capitalism however these companies shouldn’t take advantage of people the way they do.So you want to ban international trade, at least until they can pay US wages?
That approach flies in the face of every mainstream theory of economic development for the 3rd world.
To be blunt I question your veracity. I spent 10 yrs in Asia and the Foreign Employers in every country I visited was always a preferred place to work.I have lots of experiences in this area.
That is simply not true. Their conditions are horrific. But I won’t go into it because I suspect people don’t want to hear it.
I do keep up with the news. Toy factories, sports shoe factories, etc have all had reports of terrible wages and working conditions within the past 10 years. It’s also been reported that American chocolate companies have obtained their cocoa from places that use actual slaves in their harvests. It’s naive to assume that working conditions are good everywhere in the world even when the employer is from a first world country.Usually working for the foreign employer is a very sought after job in these countries, because the wages and conditions are better than the alternatives.
Good for you to be willing to pay more for items. But in the real world, most people aren’t. As soon as a competitor opens up another business, with lower cost products possibly made in another country, the more expensive products that you would be willing to buy won’t sell. It’s a global economy now, protectionism doesn’t work.Yes, we should buy local when we can, but we as a country shouldn’t tolerate American companies exporting their jobs overseas in places where people are hardly paid anything and conditions are horrible. I would rather pay more money for items and own less than have a bunch of cheap junk, personally.
My sister is a diplomat in one very popular areas for western factories in Asia. The stories are horrible.To be blunt I question your veracity. I spent 10 yrs in Asia and the Foreign Employers in every country I visited was always a preferred place to work.
How many factories and of what type have you visited?
Exactly. An adult with a family to support or bills to pay only takes McDonald’s or similar jobs because nothing else is available.The grownups did not take the jobs away. A system in which old people have to work because they cannot supplement retirement benefits and pay for overpriced medication forced these folks into taking jobs like McDonalds.
Then McDonalds chose to go the kiosks route to allow themselves to make more profit. Eventually, they would have phased out the kids.