Originally Posted by james t kirk

What's going to eventually happen is a huge social upheaval in China and places like that where people get sick and tired being oppressed and of working for peanuts and revolt just like North Americans did in the early 1900s. Right now, Western culture is enjoying a cheap existance off the backs of the Asian workers. Some day, that is going to end.

Then we'll be really screwed because it will cost way more to buy the crap we are buying now for peanuts and they won't bring those jobs back to North America that they are shipping over there right now.