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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (25038)	1/19/2004 12:40:11 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 793662

That's perennial propaganda from capitalist fundamentalists who will go to great lengths to discourage any restrictions on their ambitions for world-wide monopolies. It probably is "propaganda from capitalist fundamentalists",but it has the advantage of being true. If western countries would impose basic safety standards on 3rd world manufacturers, those same businesses would conform in order to not lose their market share. Some of them would. Many of them would go out of business or seek to evade the standards. Those same Americans have in the past championed the abolishment of sweatshops. Today those American shareholders have allowed greed to make them enablers of worker abuse in 3rd world. The advantage that these companies have is cheaper employment. If you raise costs then they can't compete. We had the equivalent of legal sweat shops here. Eventually our economy developed beyond the need for such employment as will many current poor countries. Both in the US of the 1800s and poor third world countries now the alternative is not between a sweat shop job and a cushy job, its between a sweat shop job, and working even harder for less on a farm, or perhaps working as a prostitute or perhaps starving. Tim