But it has. What are the alternatives? Prostitution, backbreaking subsistence farming, and less safe working conditions?
marsexpresshydra on
Imagine thinking free trade agreements don’t have regulations
MuldartheGreat on
<Noble subsidence farming images here>
awdvhn on
Sweatshops are morally good
RonenSalathe on
Who’s gonna post the effort post on why sweatshops are good, actually
IvanGarMo on
Some African warlord oppresses his population to sell things, better isolate the country and pretend nothing happens I guess.
Free trade and cooperation between countries helps expose that kind of shit. There are many cases when countries reform their institutions and improve conditions because they dont want to be left out of trade with rich nations.
Sweatshops aren’t bad, btw.
TouchTheCathyl on
It literally has. Have you ever been to mainland China? Accepting China to the WTO has transformed millions of lives there. I know. I’ve been. I’ve played StarCraft with people who grew up without running water.
inflation_checker on
Sort of tangentially related to OP’s post.
How do developing countries move up the income scale? It feels like, intuitively, already-developed countries would have a tremendous advantage in production of pretty much any good, making it very difficult for middle and high income industries to get off the ground in other places around the world. How do developing countries escape the crude industry and resource extraction black hole without protecting infant industries?
Just curious. I don’t know anything about economics.
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>Research Paper
Not quite. But I get how you might mistake this for one.
!ping DUNK
Compared to subsistence farming. Yeah actually. Look at Bangladesh
https://slate.com/business/1997/03/in-praise-of-cheap-labor.html
https://ourworldindata.org/poverty
But it has. What are the alternatives? Prostitution, backbreaking subsistence farming, and less safe working conditions?
Imagine thinking free trade agreements don’t have regulations
<Noble subsidence farming images here>
Sweatshops are morally good
Who’s gonna post the effort post on why sweatshops are good, actually
Some African warlord oppresses his population to sell things, better isolate the country and pretend nothing happens I guess.
Free trade and cooperation between countries helps expose that kind of shit. There are many cases when countries reform their institutions and improve conditions because they dont want to be left out of trade with rich nations.
Sweatshops aren’t bad, btw.
It literally has. Have you ever been to mainland China? Accepting China to the WTO has transformed millions of lives there. I know. I’ve been. I’ve played StarCraft with people who grew up without running water.
Sort of tangentially related to OP’s post.
How do developing countries move up the income scale? It feels like, intuitively, already-developed countries would have a tremendous advantage in production of pretty much any good, making it very difficult for middle and high income industries to get off the ground in other places around the world. How do developing countries escape the crude industry and resource extraction black hole without protecting infant industries?
Just curious. I don’t know anything about economics.