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Originally Posted by belsarius
I would argue that even that isn't always the case. We recently farmed most of our finance clerks out to eastern europe. We were also looking at technology to fill the holes. Paying these people $5 an hour is way cheaper than anything we could develop technologically so we gave up on that and went to the exploitation route.
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But exploitation is the first step in raising standards of living. It would be nice to have international standards to prevent it and redistribute wealth but in the absense of that structural change exporting of labour is the starting point. Once there is money to be fought over labour can organize to fight for their piece of the money. When the pie doesn’t exist at all there is no opportunity.