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RGacky3
22nd February 2012, 12:20
When a lot of people think of ghettos, slums, shanty towns and so on of outside of capitalism, not part of the system.

Here is when they are wrong, for every 1 person in a ghetto that is permanently unemployed you have downward pressure on wages, you have a huge pool of cheap potential labor which drives down wages. You also have a contual amount of money going into the prison industrial complex, a new industry nowerdays.

In the third world keeping desperate poverty allows multinationals to take resources for dead cheap, and have a continual source of sweatshop labor.

This stealing of resources, and cheap labor would not be able to exist without masses in slums and ghettos, excluded from the economy, yet still being used by the economy (indirectly or directly).

Franz Fanonipants
22nd February 2012, 15:44
yes we should make a market argument to end poverty i am sure it will work well

eric922
22nd February 2012, 17:16
yes we should make a market argument to end poverty i am sure it will work well
I don't think he's arguing that the market is the solution to end poverty. He seems to be saying that the market is what causes poverty, because poverty keeps profits high, and you aren't going to rid of poverty within capitalism.

RGacky3
22nd February 2012, 18:24
yes we should make a market argument to end poverty i am sure it will work well


Where did I make that argument?

PC LOAD LETTER
22nd February 2012, 19:13
yes we should make a market argument to end poverty i am sure it will work well
Gacky's one of us