Reply #99: Even in those places farm life is generally better than sweatshops

[blindpig]

The hours are better, the return on your labor is better, the slums are avoided, diseases of crowding and poor sanitation are not nearly so prevalent, human urban predators can be avoided.

If the sweatshops are so good why are those people so miserable?

Many of the problems of subsistence farmers today can be attributed to a collapsed social infrastructure, a legacy of colonialism.

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