The term “sweatshop” evokes emotional images of young children in third world countries working long hours, without bathroom breaks, vacations, or health insurance, for $2/day or less in wretched conditions. According to Dictionary a sweatshop is defined as “a shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.” This is more the product of fanciful imagining from our “government schooling” days than anything scarcely reflective of reality. To properly understand the situation we must view it from the perspective of those living in these economically depressed countries. I would argue that most people have the desire to acquire wealth or at least improve their economic and financial situation. Imagine you were living in a so called 3rd world country with no economic opportunities available for improvement such as factories or other businesses. Then a forward thinking business owner has the wonderful idea to open up a factory in such an area that is replete with available labor and pay them slightly more than what they would be earning not working in the factory. Irrespective if the above dismal description of the interior work environment is true, everyone who works in the factory is there voluntarily and only after having signed a contract of employment clearly delineating the terms of employment. Anything less would be coerced labor or some form of slavery. Therefore everyone who works in such a factory has decided that their labor is better compensated there than by doing something else, otherwise they would not be wasting their time there. In addition to this, other forward thinking business owners may also seize the opportunity to move their factories there to employ the surplus of labor. These newcomers will bid up wages so as to entice more laborers to their factories thereby creating healthy competition. This only benefits the residents of this community as it increases their standard of living and thereby helps to raise them out of poverty. As the value of labor and general community increases in this area the type of work offered will become increasingly specialized and esteemed. This will incentivize the original “sweatshop” owner to abandon this area and seek new areas where labor is in surplus and attempt to satisfy it. We must constantly seek to divorce ourselves from the unrealistic fantasy world that was force fed us in our “government schools”. It is only natural that every “government” the world over seeks to indoctrinate its young regarding its speciously good deeds whilst ignoring or blatantly lying about the many horrific atrocities and genocidal crimes that litter its history in the form of decaying corpses. History is recounted by the victors, especially in “government schools”. We must never forget this. -Danilo Cuellar
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 12:52:41 +0000
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