Reply #15: I blame our current system

[Selatius]

It generates greed. It rewards those who are the most ruthless in the marketplace with market share and wealth beyond imagination. It says that we must compete and try to beat each other so that a winner may emerge.

Things such as free trade agreements and issues of illegal immigrant workers are merely symptoms of people who are trying to find ways to either make more money or get ahead of everyone else.

Preferring to pay a Chinese assembly-line worker 60 cents an hour as opposed to a unionized assembly-line worker in the US 10 or 20 dollars an hour is, to put it bluntly, "economically feasible." It makes pure sense from a dollars and cents point of view.

Do I justify it? No. My principles simply prevent me from doing so. I'm a libertarian socialist. I favor moving towards a way of life built on mutual cooperation and sustainability not just for the survival of humanity but for the survival of the planet as a life-sustaining system as well. I believe it is the long-term solution.

Rather than ripping each other down, shouldn't we express solidarity with all the workers of the world? All the people of the world who simply want to provide for themselves and their families? Ultimately, aren't we all neighbors? Aren't we all in the same boat?