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[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>In a message dated 8/7/02 12:32:28 AM, owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com
>writes:
>
>>Let's face it, American labor is comfortable
>>with its arrangement with capital. This is because it understands that
>>its standard of living depends on U.S. workers exploiting the workers in the
>>Global South.
>
>Someone care to address that?  It's sort of a first principle for a lot of
>anti-globalization folks that regular U.S. workers are enjoying the bounties
>of imperialism.  How much is this really true if you count the military
>costs, and examine the glorious 'standard of living' of the bottom 70 percent
>or so, which would include nearly every union household?  And yes, I have
>spent time in countries the U.S. & IMF beat up on.
>
>Jenny Brown

Compare the living standards of workers in the USA and those in 
Western Europe and Japan.  Taking social welfare and work hours into 
account -- work hours in the USA are the longest among the richest 
industrialized nations (Cf. 
<http://www.igc.org/igc/ln/hl/99090819310/hl1.html>; 
<http://us.ilo.org/news/focus/0110/FOCUS-6.HTML>; 
<http://www.cnn.com/2001/CAREER/trends/08/30/ilo.study/>) -- I 
conclude it is better to lose an empire than work hard to maintain 
one.
-- 
Yoshie

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