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Originally Posted by tc-sacto
How wouold you suggest we combat slave wages,
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They're not slave wages in those countries. In fact, when you take the whole cost of living in those countries into consideration, they're usually plenty more than our own menial jobs pay. No one ever mentions this, but the $150 a month factory wage in China includes all meals and a place to live and those folks still manage to send a good portion of their income back to their home village.
The way you compete with them is in areas where they're not as competitive. You could take the entire population of the US out of China and not make a dent in their labor pool. Since we're always preaching to other countries to be capitalist and free market, why do we have a problem with other countries paying market prices for labor? Meanwhile, our gov't. controls the price of labor. Such hypocrisy.