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From: Peter Clinch
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:08
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:08
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M Holmes wrote: > There's no allegedly about it. If free trade doesn't benefit one party > then they don't volunteer for the trade and therefore it doesn't happen. So if a deal goes something like "well, we're screwing you, of course, but you have a free choice not to be exploited and have your family starve and be unable to access any sort of healthcare for them" then of course anyone feeling they're getting screwed will take the latter course? I have doubts... > A common fallacy. Usually the Nike worker is better off with the wage > than he was before, and therefore he turns up to work voluntarily. Again, he's between a sharp, spiky rock and a hard place. The hard place is at least smooth, but it's still bloody hard. > Note that in India wages in call centres have now risen so much that the > call centres are decamping to China. Reckon those Indians would rather > you're brand of economic idiocy had shortcut the process and put them on > the dole? Odd that every group of workers along the chain eventually gets pissed off with being exploited to make someone /else/ *very* rich... Well, actually it's not that odd at all, now I come to think about it. Pete. -- Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net p.j.clinch@dundee.ac.uk http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/
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From: Peter Clinch <p.j.clinch@dundee.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: EVENT: Join "Make Poverty History" riders to Edinburgh, Fri 1
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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:08:13 +0100
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