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To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com cc: (bcc: DANIEL DAVIES) bcc: DANIEL DAVIES Subject: Re: Thailand & China
>>>Paul Krugman wrote:
>>>
>>>>because the
>>>>developing world is still so poor, what looks to careless observers
like
>>>>exploitation is often far better than the alternative.
>>>
>>>Reading something like this makes me wish there was a Hell for the
>>>author to burn in.
>>>
>>>Doug
>I know, I know, for some reason I had thought Krugman was better than
this.
>I like the placement of the word "often." It's not always the case. My
>retort would
>be that what looks to exploiters' apologists as development is often far
>worse
>than the alternative.
As a matter of logic, exploitation under capitalism is always better than the alternative, because people with better alternatives can't be exploited. The point is to ask why _that_ alternative is _the_ alternative. Good God, I'm beginning to sound like Carrol (not that there's necessarily anything wrong with that).
dd
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