"I owe it all to the company store"...
Company stores, company houses, company towns and huge factories didn't work out very well in this country. China would be well advised to read up on the history of the industrial revolution and take steps to improve factory conditions there in companies such as Foxconn, Apple's manufacturer there where the factories are huge, the hours long, the pay low, the dormitories and food are basic and there is no social safety net. This is partly what allowed Apple to pile up the incredible sum of $98 billion in cash.
I wonder why these Foxconn workers aren't smiling?Apple got rich because rich folk wanted to buy their vastly overpriced product for style choices, and yes we are ALL rich by comparison to the workers you imaged.
I recently looked for 'happy Indonesian workers' fact is that's a hard search to find.
If we want a comfortable well paid workforce worldwide, then step aside and let the eugenics folk kill 6.5 billion people to get to a number that they like 500 million folk alive on earth.
That is the unfortunate bare truth.
The equation does not work with a society that wants cheap imported goods and high wages, yes it would be a start to bring manufacturing back home, but if you did that, those Chinese Foxconn workers would be back to starving and the 'developing world' would stop developing.
I know the problem, but cannot see the answer, but suspect that killing ALL the Rothschild's would probably be a good start!
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