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To: Dayuhan who wrote (8647)	6/1/1999 9:52:00 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

I know a man who was one of the first Westerners to set up shop in Taiwan. He manufactured toy models of various sorts, from planes to houses. They paid their workers about 10 cents a day plus a room in a dorm plus 3 meals a day for 10 hours of work. They started in the 50s. They moved their plants to China in the early 80s, I believe, run by Chinese people from Taiwan. Taiwan has come a long way over the last 40 years. China will go a long way over the next 40. Shrill screaming at them won't serve much of a constructive purpose. It will give the shrill screamers a lovely sense of righteousness. Frankly, IMO, we would all be better served if we worked harder to eliminate some of the extremes of poverty in our own country (I'm presuming here that the bulk if not all of the righteous screams comes from the US; perhaps unfair stereotyping).