snot
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Fri Aug-26-05 07:22 PM
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Edited on Fri Aug-26-05 07:23 PM by snot
though haven't read the book.
But the bottom line is, people in other countries need jobs, too, and if they're willing to do the same jobs for less money, they must need the jobs worse.
HOWEVER, as your description of Soros' book suggests, people in other countries also deserve not only the same chances for employment but also the same protections against unfair exploitation, the same opportunities to unionize, the same protections against heedless environmental destruction, etc.
And there is no way to administer all that without stronger international laws and enforcement.
But how to keep such admin out of control by the megacorps is a VERY good question, given that right now, even we citizens in the putatively democratic U.S. seem to have lost most meaningful control over their own government.
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