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> At that point you have a choice: fail, or build out where labor is cheap, workers are disposable and regulators are just low-cost party agents, and use your position as US company to readily import your foreign made products.

Why are any of us okay with humans being "disposable" anywhere on Earth?

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>Why are any of us okay with humans being "disposable" anywhere on Earth?

Because being a disposable worker beats being unemployed.

How do you propose changing any of that, concretely?

Not buy anything directly or indirectly from any countries without US style labor protections?

I think is just the way of the world. Not saying it's right but it's just reality. I come from a place where people kill and do horrible things for 10 dollars a day to build the same battery with maybe a 10 percent drop in quality. I doubt anyone in the US would be willing to work for that comparative advantage or something at play. How would you ensure that doesn't happen? Making everyone equal via something like Marshall Plan type thing is considered Marxist rhetoric I doubt it would be viable right? Plus there's the issue of competing nations

Uplift labor and human rights movements everywhere so they can retain self-determination but still extinguish the hellscape of exploitation that we have currently.

We don't need anything top-down.

I understand there would be challenges with doing that, but I like to think a better world is possible and it starts with respecting others' humanity.

The no further regulation option is people looking for the “made in …” on goods and not buying from certain countries. Then invoke Milton freedman.

I'm not interest in a "no further regulation" option. I just don't think anyone in our country should dictate what other countries do. That's what I meant by top-down.

If other countries want regulations and labor rights, hell yeah.

"Uplift labor ... movements "

You can't do that if there are no jobs. And 10 dollars a day is hell of a job in those places.

But there are jobs there now. So uplifting labor movements now will have an impact.

If we do this across the board, shitty companies will eventually run out of humans to exploit.

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