Re:India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN
by spaceman_2020 on Monday November 07, 2022 @04:34PM
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Have to agree. Anyone who has lived in a third world country knows that a formal job is better than a no job, and that many would absolutely love to work for, say, Foxconn for a steady paycheck.
Some of those stories about workers at Foxconn committing suicide also neglect to mention that the factory town has 1M workers who all live and work there, and that the suicide rate is actually lower than that for a city of equivalent size, or that 1M people living together might hurt themselves for any number of reasons (debts, unrequited love, adultery, etc), not just work.
Re:India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN
by Aunche on Monday November 07, 2022 @06:00PM
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Anti-capitalists and anti-globalists fail to understand that it's impossible to transition from very shitty conditions to good conditions hitting a midpoint of moderately shitty conditions. They just cherrypick examples of bad situations out of context and declare it to be proof of the failings of globalist capitalism without listening to the actual opinions of those they perceive to be victims.
The same goes for most "slavery" jobs. A lot of people's fortunes has turned all over the world by working under "inhumane" condition for American or European companies.
These are actually good jobs in respect to state of play in these countries. The harm comes from degrading the life standard in the rich countries where it's impossible to compete with places like China when they work under these conditions and as a result the jobs with "humane" conditions disappear in the wealthy countries.
Overall though, the world becomes a better places as the people in the developed countries get their stuff for cheap and people in the developing world catch up.