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Re:Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Ec... by barry-cotter on Friday March 01, 2019 @06:12PM (#19286229)
Those people don’t know anything about comparitive advantage. They just know that working in a sweatshop pays better than working on a subsistence farm, which is their other option.
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Re:Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Ec... by Mirioron on Saturday March 02, 2019 @05:12AM (#19288564)
They also know that working indoors on manufacturing is an easier job than farming. Farming is one of the more dangerous professions even.
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