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Agnosticsherbet

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2. How many people would be able to pay what products should really cost?

Reply to TalkingDog (Original post)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 11:23 AM

Jun 2016

Cellphones, computers, and all appliances would easily double or triple in cost if we paid decent wages and paid the cost of fixing pollution that comes from their manufacture up front.

Cheap good come at a cost. Prison labor is a tiny fraction of it.

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