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[24hoursfromtulsehill]

I’m not sure how you can have both unfettered capitalism and unfair trade policies? I agree 100% that our policies regarding the poorer nations are wrong, but the solution isn’t more political intervention that suits sectional interest groups in the First World at the expense of most of us and of the Third World, it’s genuine free trade. Very poor people NEED to be exploited by us to become richer. They take jobs making goods for export because that’s an improvement on the alternatives open to them. It’s like the industrial revolution in England, looking back it seems grim having children working in mills, but before that they would have been living in mudpits, slaving all day on farms, suffering far higher infant mortality, far less chance of education and so on. The children or grandchildren of today’s sweatshop workers might well enjoy a standard of living comparable to that which we have today.

 

Corporations are indeed a good thing for poorer nations. The Afghan Government, for instance, is basically begging them to build factories and what not in conurbations there, saying that it's the only thing will make it a stable state.