Comment Re:How is that "our" fault? (Score 1) 185
Read my post again, China IS evil, but we are too. We refuse to cut them off, therefore we enable them to continue to be evil. We should be using our position to force them to become more democratic, enact and enforce environmental and labor protection laws, and generally kick them into the 21st century. Instead we are using them to erode our own laws, undermine our own workforce, and generally let them lead the way to further recidivism.
By your own statement, it does sound like we have laws to protect workers, but they are not enforced aggressively enough. So at some point in our history we decided to protect our workers, and I suspect because of fear of losing their jobs to China, are not complaining to have the law enforced enough. That is exactly my problem, Fuck China, worry about us, worry about their effects on us.
It's not for any one company to be magnanimous, corporations are profit machines they will do anything for profit. Our job as citizens, and our government's job is to put up barriers and make it clear there are some ways they may not make profit. It needs to be applied equally, with sufficient enough punishments that the corporations police each other. After all, if you can hit your competitor with a billion dollar labor lawsuit, you will come out ahead on wall st., right?