I would be more inclined to be believe that the level of exploitation is approaching a breaking point (given the vast wealth being created).
I also thought that in a "well-behaved" capitalist system, workers' rights can only exist as a desire for wage increases; nevermind the working conditions, the social safety net, environmental controls, the unions (or even the right to form one) that can exist in the US.
Wages are everything to the well-behaved homo-economicus worker, no? And if there is little chance of anything else changing for better, you can make an argument that you want higher wages.
I have no anecdotal evidence of Asians being any more socially aware than Americans, but perhaps this is a "known truth" that I just don't know...
On 3/15/12, Billy O'Connor <billyoc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tony Rolfe <mr.tony.rolfe at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> "The problem is that people in Asia lack the necessary naiveté to make
>> capitalism work efficiently"
>>
>> Please unpack this... I don't have a subscription. Very
>> counter-intuitive.
>
> To me this means that the working poor in Asia don't consider themselves
> temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
>
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