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To: sm1th who wrote (7961)	2/3/2012 1:06:12 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

<<What has happened in Asia is that hundreds of millions of people have risen from the starvation of subsistence farming to the lower rungs of industry. They do not yet have the skills to perform higher jobs, but they will continue to rise. Are those low wage factory workers really worse off than their parents and grandparents were? I am very happy that the poor of the world are doing better. But it is not OK to give a starving person a sweatshop and say: "well that was better than nothing).