herewegoagain - Slashdot User

Comment Re:When the going gets tough... (Score 1) 749

by herewegoagain on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @10:06AM (#26708563) Attached to: Rescued Banks Sought Foreign Help During Meltdown

Growth?

If an operation in the US (or here in Aus) wishes to run the bulk of its operation in a third world country then the executive should have to live there as well. See how long the pro offshoring arguments would carry on for then.

Executives forced to live in 3rd world countries would have every luxury they have in 1st world countries... at a greatly reduced price. My sister lived in a mansion in Botswana... with a huge courtyard and enclosed pool when she worked there. Real luxury is possible on middle-class savings in 3rd world countries.

Comment "Tragedy of the Commons" all over again (Score 1) 152

by herewegoagain on Thursday September 18, 2008 @11:45AM (#25056017) Attached to: Report is Critical of US For Dumping E-Waste Overseas

In this case the commons is disposal of e-waste.

We ship it off to countries with no safety standards where people are destitute enough to take ANY KIND OF WORK... they probably know that their cancer risk is sky high... but they have families to feed... sort of like the coal miners who went into the mines because that was the best option they felt they had...

It's convenient for us to sweep the problem under the carpet... so under the carpet it goes.

And you can bet that someone in each of those countries is making a bundle hiring people to cook PCB boards down to their base components. Yeah capitalism!

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