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Did this dude just try to triple-reverse it with 'western-splain' right after he got done explaining that, no, Third World Denizen, three pennies and a suicide net is not exploitation, it is The Local Wage.
You call me illiterate and then post this?
Factories in third world countries that attract workers who choose to work in them make their workers better off. Period.
The notion that these workers would be better off severely impoverished back in the countryside is laughable considering they are the ones choosing to work in factories. It also makes the suicide references disingenuous. How do suicide rates among Chinese factory workers compare with the overall Chinese population? Since you brought up suicides, surely you have some facts to introduce to the discussion!
If you want to say that low wages are exploitation, fine, just recognize that the word loses any real meaning when referencing people making a rational decision to be exploited.
When people would be definitively worse off if not for having the choice to be "exploited" what's the point of using that term? Might as well use that term to describe any situation where someone benefits from another person. Have sex with your wife? Exploitation. Buy a product from a company that employs unskilled labor? Exploitation.
My problem with Bob's post was him talking about how life in rural China really isn't all that bad and how that goes to show how terrible these factories are. The implication is that he knows better than the people who make conscious and rational decisions to leave the countryside to become migrant factory workers what their best employment option. The arrogance of that is astounding.