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Re:I Tried to See Where My T-Shirt Was Made by moo on Saturday November 30, 2013 @07:52AM (#6823002)
Because the fat imperialist says capitalism is the best we have to keep it for all time until our star goes supernova? Our rooted first world lifestyle is the strong mechanism enabling these sweat shops.
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Re:I Tried to See Where My T-Shirt Was Made by VMG on Saturday November 30, 2013 @07:57AM (#6823018)
I agree.

A better argument is that free trade based on voluntary transactions is the only just and moral system of allocating resources, in theory and in practice.

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Re:I Tried to See Where My T-Shirt Was Made by nzp on Saturday November 30, 2013 @09:25AM (#6823219)
Without further qualifications, I too agree completely. However, to me it's both sad and funny how twisted the meaning of "free" and "voluntary" become when used to defend (liberal) capitalism. This is a general remark, it's not meant as an attack of how you use these words (I wouldn't really know).
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Re:I Tried to See Where My T-Shirt Was Made by csmuk on Saturday November 30, 2013 @07:55AM (#6823009)
Spot on.

Churchill was distinctly batshit as well so you can't really actually cite him as a single reliable source.

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Re:I Tried to See Where My T-Shirt Was Made by neuralk on Saturday November 30, 2013 @10:58AM (#6823453)
>Churchill was distinctly batshit

That's simply balderdash. Churchill was not only a brilliant politician, but an extremely witty and accomplished writer, thinker, and artist. He even received the Nobel prize ... for literature[1].

If you'd like to explain why you think he is "batshit" I'd love to hear it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill

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