Capitalism and free markets are what have enabled the poor of the world to become less poor at worst, and to prosper exponentially at best. If you can't understand this and get so immediately enamored with cool hippie word salads about the evil capitalist overlords you need to read more books.
Modern day China, which is often cited as a global superpower, is a small centralized communist authoritarian regime built upon what is otherwise a purely capitalistic society; they kind of get the best of both worlds in that sense: Dictatorial control of your thoughts from the top down, and also access to global markets from sheer tyranny of will. And a huge portion of that blame falls not just on America, but on any other nation that does business with them.
Your iphone doesn't *have* to be made in china, it's simply cheaper for apple to manufacture them there because of the hellishly ruthless government calling the shots with regard to labor practices. Apple could easily manufacture iphones in the united states, they would just cost you a bit more and they would make a bit less. The upside? Human beings who are for most out of sight and out of mind are not subjected to horrifyingly awful and unrelenting working conditions. This is why american capitalism is *good*, not bad, and frankly why trump's approach to chinese trade interests makes sense. The mcdonalds employee in america enjoys a higher quality of life and a higher net income than the apple employee of china.
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12-14-2020, 12:55 AM
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