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Originally Posted by lozen
Heck you look at the slavery in China assembling our Iphones
Or the Green Elite crowd that are so concerned with Climate change that they ignore child slavery to get the minerals for their batteries or the willingness to destroy ecosystems in their own country to get those minerals
Look what the USA did when it overthrew the government in Libya they have open market slave auctions now
One thing i do not like or agree with is calling all forms of exploitative labour slavery too casually. That can really damage the real meaning of the word.
Poverty exploitive wages and child labour are not slavery unless coupled with some kind of 'force'.
And i am not saying force is not present in many situations and thus 'slavery' would not apply but i think it is often overly applied to any and all exploitive labour.
So, for example, something many leftist would hate but is actually good for a country's development is when a big International company seeks to open Factories in otherwise suffering countries with instability and strife and few employment options.
The naive leftist view only looks at from the vantage point of 'how much extra profits' XYZ corp is making by utilizing super low wage labour while never seeing they are amongst the highest paying and best jobs in that region THAT MATTERS. It is those companies that often prompt infrastructure like roads and electricity to be improved leading to more local jobs and international company jobs, that increase competition that see the wages rise and conditions improve.
What the activist left often does, is try to shame the company pointing at the 'low wage' and 'profits' and then the company shuts down the operations because due to risk and instability it is just better to locate those jobs elsewhere, if they have to pay more.
The activist left celebrates that as they only care that they are impacting XYZ Profits by driving them out of the low wage area. Job done, profits impacted and reduced. Meanwhile, no one looks behind them at the now unemployed people who go right next door to even a worse local job situation or no job at all. NO one gives a **** to look backwards at the damage in their wake.
That is very much an activist left issue. Doing something they see as an ideological good that all too often harms greatly the very people they purport to want to protect because they only see corporations as the problem and profits as the problem.