>One example I recall was union jobs for garment workers. The union workers were paid about $3.50 an hour in 1970 and many American companies went to Taiwan, to find cheap labor. The workers in Taiwan were paid 17 ½ cents an hour for the same work. The finished products competed price wise but the quality of the garments from Taiwan was inferior in every way.
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>It seems that companies travel from country to country to find the cheapest labor. When all is said and done we will all be given a bowl of rice to work all day regardless of what country we live in. Most important is that we will be happy.

Of course we will be happy, as the rising tide raises all ships. It all trickles down, and imagine how much profit will be there to be trickled upon us when we all make $0.175/hr, even on jobs which can't be outsourced.

On a darker note, much of the larger picture on "how to be far richer than those who are poor" relies on the simple scheme that you don't actually have to make much more - you just make sure that what you make comes from them, so it increases the distance. Nowadays much of the outrage we felt over Sloba's goons stealing our money seems funny, the sums in some cases were below an honest criminal's dignity (or siesta threshold), specially compared with what a simple class lawsuit lawyer, lobbyist or a CEO can legally pocket, but then we were living on $5/mo, and they looked huge.

Sometimes I get this feeling that Sloba was some sort of a Wiki sandbox where these tricks were tested, including a color revolution against him (which was black/white in his case :), and now that the beta phase was okayed, it's playing in the pocket near you.