Buying cheap goods made by foreign slave labour with money most of you most likely don't have.
I know that some of you Ron Paul types think that unless you're holding gold bars in your own two hands you don't actually have any money. But my finances are just fine.
We’re lifting them out of poverty /s
Look, man, just about everything is being made in China anyway. The question is merely whether some Canadian or American corporation gets to charge a gigantic mark-up on behalf of its shareholders or whether I can buy direct. That little Chinese orphan will earn the same wage either way.
I bought an allegedly hand-made Pakistani Bowie knife last month. Apparently I buy a lot of knives. Generic wheat squares, sensible shoes, Subarus, and knifes. I digress. I don't know the circumstances of the guy who made that knife. Maybe he's in a factory earning subsistence wages. Maybe he's a craftsman who will be able to buy lentils for his family for a whole month because I bought his product. I don't know which. Maybe it's somewhere in between. But personally, I don't imagine that I made that guy's life worse by buying his work.
-k
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