Jim;

What is wonderful about money is what you can buy! Why in China, you can get just about any software program for $10 on the street. Nike pays 1 ½ cents per shoe to employees and sells a pair for $150 over here. Nike gives 90 million dollar endorsements to high school basketball players and $45 million dollar endorsements to NBA players, who sometimes run afoul of the law and moral integrity.

Why you can even purchase human body organs. Need a new heart, kidney or liver? Why the Chinese government will supply you with whatever you need taken from prisoners in Chinese jails, at least according to the media.

If half of what the media tells us is true we are in deep poo.

Tom



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>>It seems that the countries of the World are now "strongly coupled", and words like sovereignty, independence, etc., have started to lose their meaning.
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>>Nor is this completely bad; countries are starting to work together to solve World issues, and peoples all over the World are gradually starting to consider the World as if it were "but one country".
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>Don't be fooled my friend... the only thing that makes it look as if the world is being considered as one country is economic exploitation!
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>There is free movement of money, but not of people.
>There is a one-way movement of jobs, from economically strong countries to the economically weakest countries. This is disguised as "economic benevolence" but is in fact strictly economic exploitation where geography is the determinant of wages.
>As you've seen, China is the main player in this. You might wonder why, given that it is a Communist country but the reason is very simple - the Chinese government has absolute control over its people and its resources. Politics plays no role anymore (since the demise of communism in Europe) in economic decisions but the other factors I named above do and China represents the most fertile ground for pure unadulterated EXPLOITATION. All that needs to be done is to buy a few party officials and you're in. And huge bribes are perfectly affordable given the profit potential. [as an aside, I hear that many companies doing business in China try to claim these (mandatory) bribes as tax write-offs (as business expenses).