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Jan 16 2009 12:00AM
http://sayanythingblog.com/index.php In the New York Times, Nicolas Kristoff points out that American protectionism does more than simply hurt America’s economy by denying access in our market to cheaper goods it also helps keep people poor and hungry in other countries by denying them access to our market
Even if that access is through a sweatshop
The problem here is how few people realize that economies are evolutionary in nature. Meaning that you cannot take an economy still stuck in its agrarian, or in some sad cases hunter and gatherer, stage and force it to become a modern economy like ours. The economy must evolve first, and go through all the same steps our economy went through before it arrived where it is today
There was a time when the American economy was heavily dependent on sweatshop factories, but that time has come and gone. Our free market economy allowed us to move beyond the point at which the best jobs that were available were in the middle of some noisy factory stamping out the proverbial widgets. Other countries have not moved past that point, but they will as long as their is free trade
But if we Americans refuse to trade with them out of some misguided opposition to sweatshops, they’ll never evolve
I’m not in favor of seeing workers exploited. But I’m also not in favor of denying people the option of working in a sweatshop when the only alternative for them could be finding sustenance by sifting through massive piles of garbage
Disclaimer: This article is a blog post and does not represent the views or opinions of Reiten Television, KXNet.com, its staff and associates and is wholly owned by the user who posted this content.
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