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13. It doesn't dwarf the rest of the world

Mon Sep 3, 2012, 01:13 PM

Sep 2012

It dwarfs other individual nations.

There's still plenty of poor people to exploit. They're just not in one convenient country.

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"You go into an Apple store and you see the future," [View all] phantom power Sep 2012 OP

Not that I disagree.... physioex Sep 2012 #2

There's lots of other Chinas jeff47 Sep 2012 #3

It seems that we've done a lot to help China ComplimentarySwine Sep 2012 #4

Economically quaker bill Sep 2012 #6

Actually there is no other China. Warren Stupidity Sep 2012 #7

It doesn't dwarf the rest of the world jeff47 Sep 2012 #13

No really they dwarf the rest of the world as a manufacturing labor force. Warren Stupidity Sep 2012 #14

I'd like to introduce you to the continent of Africa. jeff47 Sep 2012 #16

Because that doesn't describe China a few decades ago. jeff47 Sep 2012 #18

In the 1950s and 1960s there was a huge SheilaT Sep 2012 #5

Marx pointed out that automation is a dead end for capitalism. Warren Stupidity Sep 2012 #8

People are cheaper. originalpckelly Sep 2012 #12

Too simplistic Franker65 Sep 2012 #10

um, well, don't count on that for much longer either. Warren Stupidity Sep 2012 #15