RE: Obama Approves $105 Million in Humanitarian Aid for East Africa
August 8, 2011 at 9:51 pm
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2011 at 9:54 pm by Shell B.)
(August 8, 2011 at 9:42 pm)theVOID Wrote: More of a "slave industry" than making baskets?
Those are fucking expensive baskets. I like them, though.
(August 8, 2011 at 9:42 pm)theVOID Wrote: Even assuming they have no great mineral or oil reserves they could operate factories, there would be good opportunities for them to import primary goods, use them to manufacture consumer goods and export them to the rest of the world, the people working would receive a wage that's by far preferable to starving and having to take aid.
Well, I maintain that all of those things sound wonderful until you put them in a place where a large portion of the population is dead set on exploiting the rest. Imagine a factory in the middle of a country where most of the people are starving and the rest of the people are stealing from those who are starving. What kind of industry do you think would come of that?
Christ, Judas. You have a bad habit of making sweeping generalizations. I would have no problem with putting violent offenders to death. However, I don't think that a person should be fucking mutilated merely for being a pirate. If they have only committed the crime of theft or even kidnapping, why should they be "gutted?"
