| > Surely you do not mean on an absolute basis! Not sure what you mean by this. > Do you not have a dictionary? I asked what you meant by colonialism, so enlighten me. Explain why you think outsourcing is "colonialism". > But what you may not be considering is - what do you think would happen if 8 billion people had a first-world carbon footprint? That's a discussion for another day. But you would have to reframe your argument as "Free trade is bad because the world's poor escaping poverty would be a bad thing for the environment." > So what's the rush to get new labor pools into the global economy? Simply put, extreme poverty. > Call me cynical but I think it is almost completely self interest on the part of the first world economies with only lip service paid to the well being of the poor Laotians. Of course it's self-interest. That's how economies work. Whether it's self-interest or not doesn't determine whether it's good or bad. |