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From: fred@mnetor.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Better DEAD than RED
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Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 14:55:16 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 12 14:55:16 1985
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Reply-To: fred@mnetor.UUCP (Fred Williams)
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Summary: 

>
>Don't fool yourself, we enjoy a higher standard of living because we
>support dictatorships in developping countries who support big western
>multinationals who plunder their resources and use their people as slaves.
>e.g.: the best example of "free entreprise" taken literally is the "free
>trade" district in the Philippines.  Multinationals are free to employ
>local labour at whatever wages they desire.  There, the most common means of
>ensuring employee satisfaction is hiring a few security guards with machine
>guns and giving them orders to shoot at any sign of rebellion.  It sure works
>wonders and does it ever bring the cost of labour down!

	Oh, come now! Don't beat around the bush. What are you really
trying to say?

	Seriously though, I can understand your anger at such a situation.
I must admit I was not familiar with this situation, but if you say
that is the way it is in the Philippines I won't argue. However,
Even given the extent to which this is practised it cannot account
for our standard of living. We just do not have that much trade
with the "have not" nations. They could not influence our economy
the same way the US or Japan do. 
	The major trading partners of developed countries are other
developed countries. We cannot be all treating each other that way.
It just wouldn't work.  The major key is industrialisation and
free enterprise. Rewards must exist predominantly for results!
That is how you get results. If you pay people good wages for
being unemployed then you will get people who are skilled in that
area. (Note. I don't mean that this is the only way people
become unemployed. It also happens as a result of prime ministers
allowing interest rates to soar to 22% so that businesses can
no longer afford to finance new enterprises. etc.)
>-- 
>Sophie Quigley
>{allegra|decvax|ihnp4|linus|watmath}!utzoo!mnetor!sophie

Cheers,		Fred Williams