[newmanah223]

I try not to judge these jobs by first world standards.

What I don't understand is why a company can use $2 an hour labor and then sell a product for $1K.

If I ran the US, I would put heavy tariffs on goods that companies try to outsource for cheap labor.

This would encourage them to use technology and robotics to produce domestically.

[kennywinker]

It's not judging the job by "first world standards" to say that nobody can work 12 hours a day (6 days a week) and have a life outside of work.

[Red_Leaves_Flyy]

Tariffs would increase the cost of these outrageously profitable products decreasing their market reducing sales. All things capitalists hate. Lofty goals like safe working conditions will always be fought against by capitalists who, by design of their own, are completely disconnected from the reality their greed creates.

[angelgonzales]

There are no alternative economic systems without questionable environmental and safety records. Any production system will be designed to maximize outputs at the quality the customer requires while minimizing process inputs. Whatever psychological and social framework is used organize companies, governments and individuals, the individual workers will still be performing the same assembly processes on the factory floor.

[andrepd]

That's a nonsensical statement. Slavery, feudalism, and neoliberal states all attempt to produce as efficiently as possible, but they're obviously quite different...

[angelgonzales]

The internal mechanisms are quite different, yes, however, the inputs and outputs are for the sake of this discussion, identical. The people, regardless of the system, would probably be performing the same types of operations. I’m not sure you read my original point as I intended it to be understood. A worker making tires under authoritarian communism is still going to be making tires under democratic capitalism - the differences in this worker’s experience may not be the result of these political and economic systems but rather policy at the corporate, departmental or state level which are not unique or exclusive to a particular government or economy. Any system will self propagate at the expense of other systems and individuals like workers.

[wahnfrieden]

the state works with capital, not against it.