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Originally Posted by unbzete
whoa...easy there....how about you forget about the ONE Chomsky book you read that made you an expert for just a second.
Armed Robbery implies a violation of un unwilling party, by an aggressor party. Have you ever been to southeast asia? They are thrilled to have those factories and the wages they bring
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I have never read Chomsky nor have I been to SE Asia. But I have been to a textile factory in Mexico and spent a few nights in a tar hut shanty town where most of the workers lived. I was involved in filming a documentary about the poor working conditions in factories which supplied U.S. manufacturers with goods. Within a few minutes of walking into the building, a couple of people on the film crew passed out due to the intense fumes of the chemicals used to process the fabrics and materials. Beyond the horrendous working conditions in the factory, the shanty town was comprised of ramshackle housing, some made from cardboard, where entire extended families lived and worked at the factory.
"Thrilled" is not the word I would use to sum up the feelings of the people I met. Maybe "hopeless suffering" would be more accurate.