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To: FJB who wrote (80216)	6/9/2010 2:13:07 PM
From: TimF	3 Recommendations Respond to of 90947

Say that we had first contact with some super (economically) advanced aliens. …and pretty soon they set up factories here. …and I was offered a job in one of these factories, doing software engineering. The pay is $400k/year. The work week is 20 hours long. The work environment is far better than I’m used to – great internal decoration, well tended plants, a zen-like water garden near my desk, massages every other day. …and then left-wing alien “sentient being rights activists” started protesting, because I was being forced to work for less than a quarter of the prevailing wage in Alpha Centauri, and my work hours were twice as long as the legal norms in Alpha Centauri, and I didn’t have every mandatory benefits like “other other year off”, and “free AI musical composition mentoring”. …and then left-wing alien “sentient being rights activists” wanted to make it illegal for my employer and I to contract with each other at mutually beneficial terms. …then I would be rip shit that some elitist who had never visited me, or knew of my actual alternatives on the ground presumed to decide that I shouldn’t have this opportunity. Which brings me to my core point: Chinese factory conditions may not be the exact cup of tea for a San Francisco graphic designer or a Connecticut non-profit ecologist grant writer … but they’re, by definition, better than all the other alternatives available to the Chinese workers (or the factories would find it impossible to staff up). Butt out, clueless activists. tjic.com jeffreyellis.org