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  • TrudeauCastroson [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This is what every single ideology knows about sweatshops abroad but is more widely accepted because it exports the suffering.

    Everyone knows if we paid an actual good/fair wage (even if your definition of fair thinks profit is okay 🤮) to people making shoes and clothes and electronics that everything would be more expensive.

    No ideology denies this but neoliberals claim this is good actually because it allows for a linear increase in "development" (ignoring the inherent exploitation that they say will go away as GDP go up but have to know on some level it doesn't if they cared to look at anything the IMF does)