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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (108408)4/28/2000 8:33:00 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 1576908
 
RE: Most family owned businesses don't have the cost advantage of barefoot Indonesian children working 20 hours a day for $5.
How can you compete against that?

So you wont all the barefoot Indonesians to lose their jobs?

This is only partially a joke. People say that employees in third world countries are exploited, and from a certain viewpoint it may be true. But many of them would be worse off without the "exploitation".
Also companies like Wallmart bring the cost of many products down. While that obviously hurts direct competitors, it helps the American consumer, particuarly those of modest means.

Tim
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