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28 Nov 2012, 4:17 pm

ruveyn wrote:
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Here's the main reason I bumped this thread: I'm sick of the argument that says "Children in poor countries make stuff in sweatshops for American companies so globalization must be bad."

Sweatshops are an unavoidable part of capitalism. If they weren't in the third world then they would be in America and England. Isn't that what happened in Victorian England? You can't get rid of the have-nots by moving them.

"The crucial thing for most of the left now, is what goes under the name of "anti-globalization". A sort of primitive, I would say non-Marxist form of anti-capitalism."
- Christopher Hitchens


Sweatshops were mostly abolished in the U.S. by 1930. States passed health and safety laws so there would not be another Triangle Shirt Factory holocaust.

By then most states had child labor laws restricting the condition under which a person 14 years old or less could be employed.

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What's wrong with child labour?



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28 Nov 2012, 4:20 pm

[quote="GGPViper"
What's wrong with child labour?[/quote]

Nothing inherently. The laws prevented children from being employed in tasks their young bodies could not handle well.

They did not want ten year old kids working in coal mines (in the 19th century that was common in the U.S. and Britain).

A kid who can do a job safely and competently should be hireable for that job.

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28 Nov 2012, 4:29 pm

The computer industry wants to hire wiz kids.



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29 Nov 2012, 1:29 pm

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The computer industry wants to hire wiz kids.


The bot is getting better. That one wasn't half bad.

I'd like to see the source code, though.



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29 Nov 2012, 1:47 pm

We want to force Brittney Spears and McDonalds down the throats of the rest of the world.
At least the Romans never sunk that low.
American agriculture wants everyone in the world to stop growing the crops they have traditionally grown and use our genetically altered crap,you can't save the seeds so now you have to buy ADM's Frankenstein seeds every year.



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29 Nov 2012, 2:35 pm

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We want to force Brittney Spears and McDonalds down the throats of the rest of the world.
At least the Romans never sunk that low.
American agriculture wants everyone in the world to stop growing the crops they have traditionally grown and use our genetically altered crap,you can't save the seeds so now you have to buy ADM's Frankenstein seeds every year.


No one is forcing anything on anyone. People buy what they want and sell what they make.

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29 Nov 2012, 2:36 pm

In the future humans will be genetically engineered.



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29 Nov 2012, 4:34 pm

ruveyn wrote:
Misslizard wrote:
We want to force Brittney Spears and McDonalds down the throats of the rest of the world.
At least the Romans never sunk that low.
American agriculture wants everyone in the world to stop growing the crops they have traditionally grown and use our genetically altered crap,you can't save the seeds so now you have to buy ADM's Frankenstein seeds every year.


No one is forcing anything on anyone. People buy what they want and sell what they make.

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True,but we do broadcast alot of B.S.over satellite T.V.,just picture innocent indigenous toddlers exposed to Jersey Shore,no one should be subjected to that :lol:
But your right,they could turn off the T.V.
But GMO seeds are being coerced (maybe a better word) upon farmers in some areas.
Baker Creek Heirloom seeds has info on this.
RareSeeds.com