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Re: Property Rights are the foundation of freedom
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Wed, 30 Apr 2003 15:56:11 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Costello writes:
As for your assertion about exploitation, bear in mind there are two worlds,
the way things should be and the way things are. Let’s use Nike as an
example, as anti-capitalists everywhere seem to revel in tearing them down.
First off why does a company like Nike move it’s manufacturing out of the
US? Well that’s easy because they know that minimum wage laws cut deeply
into profit, so they look to under-developed countries like Indonesia for
inexpensive labor. They do not enter villages with guns forcing these people
to work, there is no overseer with a whip beating them if their performance
is sub par.

Wow, you really haven't a clue have you?  That's it, just keep living your
comfortable american life on the backs of the poor.  Energy is limitless...

Anybody else want to tackle this one?  I am not sure I can do it without
getting banned from off-topic.debate...

-- Hop-Frog



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  Re: Property Rights are the foundation of freedom
 
(...) Me clueless? maybe on somethings, but I don't thiink this is it, I just disagree with you. The only poor I live off the backs off is my grandparents who left their repressive country for a free nation where inspite of difficulty they were able (...) (22 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Property Rights are the foundation of freedom
 
(...) And so there goes the myth presented by the anti-capitalists, these big fat cat tycoons light their cigars with $100 bills while their employees all slave away in sweat shops. Poor economic conditions in Iraq are the fault of the west? This is (...) (22 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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