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- From: gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Save the Planet and the Economy at the Same time!
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <726036250snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au>
- References: <JMC.93Jan2145832@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 04:44:10 GMT
- Organization: STAFF STRATEGIES - Anthropologists & Training Agents
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- In article <JMC.93Jan2145832@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
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- > We are exploiting cheap foreign labor, and if we couldn't do so,
- > there would be a small reduction in living standards. However,
- > 1.2 billion Chinese have just recently made themselves available
- > for exploitation, this being better than their other alternatives.
-
- Well, this is *partly* true. The Chinese are only making their cheap
- labour available within the context of their national endeavours to
- keep the worst of the exploiters at arms length, toward positioning
- themselves to benefit by exploiting other resources in turn. The
- Philippines are also having the Americans leave, while the whole of
- the Asia-Pacfic rim keeps an acute weather eye constantly on Japan.
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- The matter addresses equitable terms of trade within a wider drive
- toward political sovereignty and stability, yes?
-
- Gil
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