|
|
 Originally Posted by wufwugy
That "default state" is itself a product of oppression and exploitation.
Oppression and exploitation are default states as well. Scarcity of resources is an underlying reality that will ALWAYS express itself in one way or another, regardless of the policies and initiatives society chooses to deal with it. I am not romanticizing sweatshops, I'm only suggesting that there aren't any good alternatives for increasing the standard of living and wealth of a society.
Sweatshops have been a piece of transitions not because they have to be but because they can be. The fact that they are transitional instead of permanent shows that they never had to be sweatshops in the first place
This is more employment of the "economics is a zero sum game" fallacy. Sweatshop labor is transitional in third world countries because the countries get richer at a very fast pace. See the double digit growth rates in the economies of these countries. Once wealth and human capital accumulates past a certain point, these countries are no longer candidates to be massive export economies anymore and they transition to being more like modern Western economies.
|
Reply With Quote
