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Originally Posted by batich
Usually if something is good for the rich and for big corporations it is bad for poor and middle class.
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You assume economics is a "zero sum" game. The positive economic growth tide raises everybody's boat.
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Originally Posted by batich
For DR free trade will bring only overdevelopment, deterioration of living standards, environmental pollution, chinese type "sweat shops" and sweet dreams about "good old times". Just ask anybody who ever worked under a chinese manager or owner.
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How can development erode living standards? I thought one thing the DR needed was jobs, seeing how much unemployment exists. And aren't there already existing Labor Laws in the DR that would preclude "sweat shops"?
And what does Chinese management have to do with the DR? Isn't that a semi-racist comment?
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Originally Posted by batich
Regarding Taiwan and China , the only thing they need uregently - comfortable living space. For their billions population.
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Taiwan, yes. China, absolutely not.
What China could use is what Taiwan has: a working democracy.
Look how much of the DR is based on cheap Chinese stuff. You don't think it's not "subsidized"?