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Old 01-12-2010, 04:32 AM   #25 (permalink)
highthief
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Originally Posted by Charlatan View Post
I can assure you that my standard of living is no higher here than it was in Canada. In fact, in some ways, my standard of living was better in Canada (not all just some).
It is compared to the ocean of poor people living all around little city states around Singapore and Dubai and the rest.

We live in a global economy and it's hard not to benefit to an extent from the low wages paid to people around the world, whether banana farmers in Ghana or low paid factory workers making my Gap shirt.

However, places like Dubai are doing to Asian and African poor what Canada did to the Chinese building the railroads, and it's no more morally right today than it was 100 years ago.
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