Made in China

[DrGuile]

Originally posted by DrGuile@May 19 2004, 11:37 AM
Arguably, yes, we should.

My knowledge of business science is limited at best (non-existant would be closer to the truth), so Im not stating anything as fact, but I enjoy having ideas tossed around.

Lets say you work at a large, privately owned plant. You're 40, 45. Plant is moved to Pekin by the boss who obviously follows your ideology that its for progress and its natural. so why not do it?

What do you do than?

Of course finding another job is very hard because most of the town you are living in was built around that plant. Most connext(sp?) business are now closed. You also cant really sell your house and move because no-one is buying and you could not even cover your morgage.

So you have 5000 people that society will now have to care for. For the good of that one owner who acted in the name of progress.

Of course, the other side of the medal is that if he didnt do it, some chinese person would have started a similar company and driven that US based company out of business...

Also, on a side note.

Should you wonder why it is so much cheaper to manifacture things in other country.

Child labor, slave wages, no environment laws, etc...

Or is this just progress?