Patterico’s Pontifications

1/14/2004

BALKO ON SWEATSHOPS

Filed under: Economics — Patterico @ 7:44 pm

For an interesting perspective on why foreign “sweatshops” are a good thing, read this.

Does this mean that we should celebrate the fact that there are people worse off than we are? Certainly not.

Does it mean that people who self-righteously condemn such “sweatshops” may not realize the real-world impact of their stance? Absolutely.

2 Comments

  1. Working for $1/hour plus basic medical in, say, Guatamala, beats the living daylights out of being a serf or sextoy for el Padrone. It amazes me what alternatives the opponents have in mind. Even socialism requires a basis, which these countries don’t yet have. Even a true Troskyite should welcome capitalist “oppression”, so that once an economy forms, they can have something to [strike]ruin[/strike] share.

    Comment by Kevin Murphy — 1/15/2004 @ 11:16 am

  2. Sweatshops are good
    Patterico links, via Radley Balko, to this NY Times op-ed defending third-world sweatshops against the mindless feel-good opposition of most Democrat candidates. Sone additional quotes from the piece:I’d like to invite Richard Gephardt and the other De…

    Trackback by The Interocitor — 1/15/2004 @ 11:33 am

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