http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/08/leaving_poverty.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/08/leaving_poverty.html/comment-page-1#comment-3591 RJ Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:46:49 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/08/leaving_poverty.html#comment-3591 <p>Your liberal standpoint to such a passionately debated subject is very convincing. I believe that the general population must first realize that, despite the amount of advocacy groups that denounce these factories as a social injustice, sweatshop laborers like those in China are not only willing to be employed by, but furthermore favor the existence of American factories offering low wage labor. This is obvious from the fact that laborers choose to relocate themselves in areas where work in factories is available. Yet still, sweatshops are so easily condemned, because Americans do not comprehend the lifestyles or reasons as to why laborers would demand such work. I understand this to be the fundamental issue for Americans: they simply lose grasp of the world’s economic status relative to their own. They are indeed fooled by the perception that other nations also share the same social welfare and living standards of the U.S. As a result, they fail to remember that rural villages that experience trouble with running water and other forms of limited technology still exist. In places like these, an hourly wage of two dollars is actually substantial for foreign laborers who would not earn such an amount by any other means. It is then no surprise to see that the demand for employment in sweatshop factories has actually increased. We must simply quit focusing on American corporations’ concentration on increased production and large profits, and instead focus on the positive long run effects that sweatshops are responsible for. By not doing so, that which Americans perceive as a global threat is actually presenting a positive sign for economic growth in developing countries, as well as proving an answer to ending world poverty.</p> Your liberal standpoint to such a passionately debated subject is very convincing. I believe that the general population must first realize that, despite the amount of advocacy groups that denounce these factories as a social injustice, sweatshop laborers like those in China are not only willing to be employed by, but furthermore favor the existence of American factories offering low wage labor. This is obvious from the fact that laborers choose to relocate themselves in areas where work in factories is available. Yet still, sweatshops are so easily condemned, because Americans do not comprehend the lifestyles or reasons as to why laborers would demand such work. I understand this to be the fundamental issue for Americans: they simply lose grasp of the world’s economic status relative to their own. They are indeed fooled by the perception that other nations also share the same social welfare and living standards of the U.S. As a result, they fail to remember that rural villages that experience trouble with running water and other forms of limited technology still exist. In places like these, an hourly wage of two dollars is actually substantial for foreign laborers who would not earn such an amount by any other means. It is then no surprise to see that the demand for employment in sweatshop factories has actually increased. We must simply quit focusing on American corporations’ concentration on increased production and large profits, and instead focus on the positive long run effects that sweatshops are responsible for. By not doing so, that which Americans perceive as a global threat is actually presenting a positive sign for economic growth in developing countries, as well as proving an answer to ending world poverty.

]]> http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/08/leaving_poverty.html/comment-page-1#comment-3590 JoshK Wed, 23 Aug 2006 19:44:41 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/08/leaving_poverty.html#comment-3590 <p>The real joke is that people who are so anti-progress call themselves "progressives".</p> The real joke is that people who are so anti-progress call themselves “progressives”.

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