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>it's richer countries outsourcing the lower ends of their industry and the assembly process to us because they can pay people here literal pebbles under very disadvantageous work laws.
It's difficult to propose a real viable alternative to this. While it may sound nice for workers to receive the fruit of their labor, most of the value of any good or service sold, from socks to cell phones, comes from commodification, which means that most of the value it has ultimately comes from the person who's able to justify the price tag, or to raise it higher, be it marketers with their psychologically manipulative tactics, businessmen who sell products as 100% slave labor-free, bio-friendly products, or people who can convince others that their product or service is indispensable for others (such as anti-depressant pill-pushing psychiatrists, or people who sell Wera-branded tools).
I really do wish there were a way for rich countries not to take advantage of poorer ones and for members of the bourgeoisie not to unfairly exploit the proletariat, but I believe that without those types of people who create artificial needs are the ones who allow for a few people to become rich at all.
I do not want justify capitalism, but I don't believe that progress would happen if there weren't anybody to convince others of their vision of progres.