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A feasable way for a lower middle class American to profit from cheap 3rd world labor?
#5523062 - 04/16/06 11:20 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I was just thinking. There's all these huge multi-national corporations making billions of dollars exploiting cheap labor in developing countries and people bitch about that, but how many of those people provide any of those people with a "living wage"?
How would you go about doing that?
How would one go about hiring a dozen homeless nepalese children for $2/hr?
How would you derive value from their labor?
Could you have them make stuff for you, ship it overseas, and sell it on ebay? What kind of government interference would we have to deal with? Somehow I doubt "Free Tradetm" applies to Joe in Texas or Bhopar in India the same way it does to Transcontanental Supercorp Inc.
I really thing the answer to alot of the worlds problems lies in people working more directly with each other instead of relying on corporate middlemen.
We need viable business models that involve average to poor Americans employing people thousands of miles away with little to no access to telephone or internet.
I know there are some penpal programs that could serve as a method of first contact, but where would we go from there?
Maybe we could hire them to be our personal shopper. Have them buy things for us (with our money) and in return they get to keep some of the money.
I'm eager to hear your ideas.
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Re: A feasable way for a lower middle class American to profit from cheap 3rd world labor? [Re: Baby_Hitler]
#5523321 - 04/17/06 01:43 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Why wouldn't the corporations just put you out of business if you tried cutting in on their patch? After all the whole idea of "globalisation" is to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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Re: A feasable way for a lower middle class American to profit from cheap 3rd world labor? [Re: Alex213]
#5523342 - 04/17/06 01:53 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
Alex213 said: Why wouldn't the corporations just put you out of business if you tried cutting in on their patch? After all the whole idea of "globalisation" is to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Well, to be fair... making the poor poorer is only a side-effect. It's not part of their set of goals 
The poor have to be able to afford to buy their products, after all
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Re: A feasable way for a lower middle class American to profit from cheap 3rd world labor? [Re: Konnrade]
#5523374 - 04/17/06 02:05 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yeah but they arn't selling it to the people working for them in the third world. They're selling it to people in countries who've fought for many years for the right to have unions and still have a little money and working rights left.
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Re: A feasable way for a lower middle class American to profit from cheap 3rd world labor? [Re: Alex213]
#5523636 - 04/17/06 07:35 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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What are they going to do exactly? Send some guys to knock over my little factories?
Sure they're going to have advantages that a small fry American with half a dozen businesses on 3 continents won't, but I'm not concerned with direct interference. They have bigger fish to fry.
Kicking over sand castles is rarely cost effective.
Here's a thought... solid products like shoes and peppercorns have to be shipped,which raises overhead, and makes it nearly impossible to keep government fingers out of your pie, but information can be transported nearly instantaneously and cheaply. If we could set up broadband hotspots in third world countries so that the business has decent computers and a good connection, they could operate robots all over the world.
They could make shoes in a factory in Arizona one day, and vacuum an office building in Ontario the next. Maybe even build houses and provide mall security.
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Re: A feasable way for a lower middle class American to profit from cheap 3rd world labor? [Re: Baby_Hitler]
#5526218 - 04/17/06 06:26 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Buy shares of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (FCX NYSE). They have a lot of mines in Indonesia. Indonesia has low labor and land costs. FCX is the largest payer of taxes to the Indonesian government which is basically a government run by corporations. They have about the lowest production costs for copper compared to other companies. They also produce gold.
Bhp Billiton Ltd (BHP NYSE) is probably a better investment. It operates in 25 different companies and produces copper, nickel, uranium, aluminum, manganese, zinc, oil and gas. Buy both BHP and FCX and get rich.
Actually, its probably not worker exploitation, because people in a lot of poorer countries like to work for mining companies because of the higher wages payed by the mining companies.
Edited by Luddite (04/17/06 06:29 PM)
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Re: A feasable way for a lower middle class American to profit from cheap 3rd world labor? [Re: Luddite]
#5529055 - 04/18/06 11:38 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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