On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 01:15:20AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 2/12/2006 10:09:00 PM Pacific Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Well said. The path of globalization tends to lead downward to the lowest > > common denominator. And in some countries that is very low indeed. > > > > Marnie aka Doe The solution, of course, is an international labor > movement. > > > The solution, if you ask me, is avoiding anyone claiming they know what > the real solution is, especially if they then try and impose their pet > solution on the rsst of the world. > ======== > Well, personally, I am against child labor. > > And people making 50 cents a day. And having to live next to toxic waste. > > Those types of things only changed in the US with a labor movement. The > bottom line of capitalism, which has good points, but also bad points, is > profit. > And usually companies have to be kicked to insure worker's rights because > they > feel it cuts into profits. > > Just the way the world has gone up until now. Kick, movement forward, kick, > movement forward. > > It doesn't happen by itself, or spring from the goodness of people's hearts. > Not when profit is involved. > > But you believe what you want. > > Marnie aka Doe
Oh, I will - I don't need your permission. I just find it only too typical that someone from the USA seems to think that they can lecture me on how to solve the world's problems. Especially when it's on the topic of International Labour Organizations, where I'm prepared to bet I know an order of magnitude more about the subject than you do. I'm married to the daughter of a family of British and/or European left-wing politicians - one who was a member of the ILO forty years ago - and I still have contacts in the worldwide relief organisations who work with the side effects of these problems on a daily basis. There *is* no simple one-size-fits-all solution. I've seen many, many organisations set up to address the issues, and I've seen them fail. I've got my own ideas as to why these failed - probably ones that you would disagree with. We'll just have to disagree, too, as to whether the socio-economic system in the USA is the problem or the solution.
