In article QjaCb.182$pY.74@fed1read04, "R. Hubbell"
writes:


Clearly we all aren't aware of the limitations, but talking about it is a
start.
Can you imagine selling your child forever to indentured servitude? That's
happening. Get your G.I. Joe for $4.95 but at least be aware that the low
price
bares another social cost.


But you must also keep in mind that NOT buying that $4.95 action figure also
bears a social cost. Every choice has social costs for someone.

And, the free market makes those choices better than your social ideology.
Those third world laborers most willing to work for low wages are the ones most
desparately in need of employment.

If you really want to help them, get rich, get government out of everyone
else's way so they can get rich, balance environmental concerns with economic
concerns, here and abroad, so we get even richer, and we can afford LOTS of
picture frames and action figures.

And don't impose your value system and environmental concerns on those in
developing countries. To you, that mahogany rainforest in Sumatra might be most
valuable as orangutan housing, but to the people who live there, that
rainforest is capital they can convert into houses, schools and hospitals. If
you want it saved for the orangutans, then make it worth their while by
planning your vacation to include orangutan watching and spend lots of money
there.

But don't tell them that their children have to starve because you won't
purchase anything made of tropical hardwoods because the orangutans are more
important than their children.

Don

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