In article , "Earl Grieda"
writes:


However, when it comes to work I would define dedication to a job as loving
the job. In so far as these Chinese workers I would say they are exploited,
not dedicated. If you think that these people love working 84 hours a week
for 24 cents an hour then you really are in a fantasy world. And please
spare me the nonsense of its "the market and capitalism" at work, or how
much better off they are now than before they had these great jobs.


Why would you want to be spared from the truth?

Were it your own family in question, would you rather work long hours at low
pay to feed them or be unemployed because you demanded a higher rate of pay,
and sit home to watch them starve to death at leisure?

Like it or not, those are the choices for much of the third world, and you
can't do anything about it by simply insisting that we pay more for our
products to support a higher wage.

First, paying more is unliklely to filter down to those workers when there are
plenty of others still willing to work for the lower wage, and more
importantly, we in the developed world have a limited amount of discretionary
income to spend on non-essentials like picture frames. Paying more for some
items means we buy less of others, and those workers making the other products
go back to starving.

If your heart really bleeds for those third world families, then the best thing
for you to do would be to work hard, be productive and earn a lot of money,
then give up expensive hobbies like flying and use your increased earnings and
savings to buy a lot of picture frames at the market price.

--
Wm. Donald (Don) Tabor Jr., DDS
PP-ASEL
Chesapeake, VA - CPK, PVG