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Re: Property Rights are the foundation of freedom
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 2 May 2003 08:13:44 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Costello writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes:
> > 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...
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> 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 to earn a living, and provide for his family. His
> hard manual work in a free country enabled his sons to go to college and
> make a good life for themselves. So yes, my level of comfort comes precicely
> because my grandfather made the neccessary sacrifices to make them possible.
Employment laws are one of the greatest achievements of most developed
countries. Do you want to return to what your grandparents had to endure, or
are you not grateful that things have moved on? Our children belong in school
not sweatshops. Access to education should be based on merit; not the
endeavours [good or bad] of our ancestors.
It is rather ironic that this exchange has spanned May Day.
Scott A
Scott A
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