besson (catching up)
The Price of Being the World's Factory
When coming to think about it, it is much a bitter-sweet situation common to all developing countries... Yes, there may well be exploitation there. Yet most people don't have much choice there, do they? They have their children to feed and parents to support: they are just struggling for survival. Given the modern way of consumption with all the promotions & impetus given to consumption, who is going to make the huge amount of commodities for them which would inevitably bring about pollution ? How many white collars --leave alone the tertiary section of the economy -- elsewhere or anywhere for that matter would prefer to go back to the factories ( or even the farmlands ), even if they are paid more which is obviously not quite the case?
The Price of Being the World's Factory
When coming to think about it, it is much a bitter-sweet situation common to all developing countries... Yes, there may well be exploitation there. Yet most people don't have much choice there, do they? They have their children to feed and parents to support: they are just struggling for survival. Given the modern way of consumption with all the promotions & impetus given to consumption, who is going to make the huge amount of commodities for them which would inevitably bring about pollution ? How many white collars --leave alone the tertiary section of the economy -- elsewhere or anywhere for that matter would prefer to go back to the factories ( or even the farmlands ), even if they are paid more which is obviously not quite the case?