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Gilbert Gélinas's avatar

You can cherry-pick examples all you want. Mexico is nowhere in better conditions it was decades ago.

As for China, it's been a calculation by their government to have people work at wages that made it profitable for foreign companies to produce over there and import. Those wages are considered slave wages in the companies' countries which is why it's more profitable for them to produce over there even including the transportation costs. Of course, they managed to install free trade to make it even more advantageous.

But there are countless countries that didn't have a government to see it at least lifted the poor out of their misery. Thailand and Bangladesh come to mind. In any case, corporations didn't relocate there out of commiseration for their people and they sure didn't ask if first world workers thought it was worth it to become unemployed for that cause.

As for 9/11, if you have to make a peer reviewed research to demonstrate the official narrative holds water, there's a problem. But I don't expect you to understand that

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