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TheWraith

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10. So because their wage-slavery is a little less slavey than the rest of China, it's okay?

Reply to Tesha (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 30, 2012, 07:37 PM

Mar 2012

I can't help but notice that that's a purely free-marketer attitude, basically saying that it doesn't matter if they make a living wage since the company doesn't HAVE to pay them a living wage. And in fact that it's not rational for the company to do so.

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