Conservative Southern Values Revived: How a Brutal Strain of American Aristocrats Have Come to Rule

[RainDog]

80. true

you see the same in densely-populated American cities.

I'm not as complicit as a lot of people I know - I don't live extravagantly and never have, have made choices all my life that reject the bigger/better aesthetic - but anyone who lives in a western nation does exploit others.

there's an excellent documentary called Darwin's Nightmare that talks about Nile perch - people in Tanzania are expected to eat the heads and guts of fish that are flown to western nations (and caught with high tech equipment that has further impoverished local workers.)

None of the profits of that huge industry have "trickled down" to the people there.

The same story holds true, even today, in Latin America and companies like Chaquita who use forced labor. When Ashcroft was AG, he refused to hear a suit from workers who complained an American company held them at gunpoint to force them to work in horrid conditions.

In China today - people are locked into ghettos at night and forced to work for subhuman wages in subhuman conditions so that Americans can have cheap electronics.

But, yes, I am no where near as complicit for using my computer to type this as is the CEO of a company making decisions about their labor policy or the board members of a corporation who go along with this for the sake of quarterly earnings.