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Sweatshops as Good Entry Level Jobs
Greg Gutfeld of Fox News suggested this either on "The Five" or "Red Eye". Any opposing arguments?
This is an article I once linked on this website before, but I think should hold some pertinence in this thread:
exiledonline . com/recovered-economic-history-everyone-but-an-idiot-knows-that-the-lower-classes-must-be-kept-poor-or-they-will-never-be-industrious/
If I could be for only an hour
If I could be for an hour everyday
If I could be for just one little hour
I'd be cute, in a stupid ass way~
Entry to what? I'm not aware of any substantial white-collar section existing in the third-world.
Any chance that Greg is part of "Learn Liberty?"
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Saying "entry level" implies they ever lead to anything else.
I'm on some sickle-hammer shit
Collective Bruce Banner shit
FKA: #FF0000, AKA Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath
Stop watching Fox news.
Is this resistance or a costume party?
Either way I think black with bandanas is a boring theme.
fka Creep
I once heard the argument that sweatshops are ok because the people working in them "don't know any better". *sigh*
Things like this make me irrationally angry.
Seriously do liberals have any connection to the real world at all?
Is this resistance or a costume party?
Either way I think black with bandanas is a boring theme.
fka Creep
Anyone going to answer the guy in the video?
The problem is that Gutfeld presumes that capitalism is rational, and legitimate, as well as the (obviously false) myth that anybody in a capitalist economy can make it, if they just try really hard. However; I think the real moral of the story is that this guy is an idiot, and there are probably much more entertaining, if not productive, activities you could be engaging in than watching some idiot on Fox.
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"Kick over the wall 'cause government's to fall,
How can you refuse it?,
Let fury have the hour, anger can be power,
D'you know that you can use it?"-The Clash, "Clampdown"
I just comment "lol" on their videos.
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1. Sweatshop workers don't enter into anything marginally better.
2. Working hard for next to no pay never improved the living conditions of common workers. Organising and demanding better conditions did.
"What is a thief? - A thief is someone who covets his neighbour's property so much that he doesn't take the time to form a corporation."
"The poor complain - they always do
but that's just idle chatter.
Our system brings rewards to all
- At least to all who matter."
"It is good that things have gotten better but it would be better if things were good."
capitalism is based off the Davis-Moore hypothesis stating
1. Some jobs are more important than others.
2. We want the best people for the best jobs.
3. Make the process difficult.
4. The reward should be worth the work.
However, the system is flawed. Many of us have surely had a boss in which we thought how in the %@#$ did this guy get this job. More often than not in a capitalist system it's about who you know rather than what you know.
If sweatshops aren't that bad, then maybe these sweatshop advocates should start working in one.
You know what drives me up the wall? These "libertarians", at least in the United States, are treated with at least some legitimacy as a growing outside political force... and we're the idiotic, utopian crazies who "need to be educated".
Bah!
Of course Libertarians would support the idea that sweatshops would benefit the poor, as it is a "mutually" beneficial exchange. Their entire arguments consists of stating "well, working for terrible conditions is better than starving." But that's the point, we shouldn't have a society where the choices aren't simply between alienated working and starving to death.
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The State rests on the slavery of labor. If labor becomes free, the State is lost. - Max Stirner
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Yes.
Any good ones?
Nope.avi
"Let them eat cake". Any opposing arguments?
...oh.
they stymie economic development in developing nations by making it difficult or impossible for native businesses to compete, pretty much ensuring that sweatshop work will forever be the mainstay.
That's on top of the, uh, questionable ethics of using sweatshop labor in the first place.
unrelated but we should just make any internet catchphrase a bannable/suspendable offense
Last edited by #FF0000; 6th March 2013 at 16:29.
I'm on some sickle-hammer shit
Collective Bruce Banner shit
FKA: #FF0000, AKA Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath
Cripes, soon spelling mistakes will get you suspended. I'm fairly convinced all the mods here at this point are Stalinist or secretly Stalinist.
