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Re:Facebook made my teenager into an ad by krisdol on Saturday February 15, 2014 @03:22PM (#7245161)
Exactly! The few rich people who bought up all the land and placed foreign-owned sweatshops on it are doing the workers a favor. Sure, many goods produced there are priced way out of the range of what the workers could ever dream of affording, but what the locals have lost in terms of self-sustainable living has been more than made up for by the pleasantries of factory towns, jobs for every man, woman, and child, and living quarters with meals for purchase on site, making it easy for children to fulfill the labor requirements they were contracted for as adolescents. And since capitalism has priced every other option but starvation and crime out of reach, sweatshops certainly appear to be good options for wage slaves.
Re:Facebook made my teenager into an ad by philwelch on Saturday February 15, 2014 @03:58PM (#7245293)
Yes, this is exactly what every country which ever had sweatshops looks like. It's not like England, or the United States, or South Korea ever developed a middle class capable of buying the kinds of products being manufactured in their sweatshops. Capitalism only reinforced existing class divides, which is why the preindustrial nobility are still the only rich people in the world.
Re:Facebook made my teenager into an ad by nlp on Sunday February 16, 2014 @09:35AM (#7247708)
"Which is why the preindustrial nobility are still the only rich people in the world"

Obviously false.

Bill Gates? Jay Z? Zuckerberg? There are so many people on the Forbes Billionaires List who are self-made.

Re:Facebook made my teenager into an ad by philwelch on Sunday February 16, 2014 @11:06AM (#7247994)
Um, that's my point.