(April 15, 2010 at 7:47 am)Tiberius Wrote: The point is fr0d0, it is illegal. Criminals don't care about regulation and laws...because they are criminals. Even socialism wouldn't be able to stop criminals from existing. So what would happen without regulation? Well, the market would naturally regulate. If a company is found to be keeping slaves, it would be brought to trial by the government in the exact same way it is now.It's illegal to keep slaves directly. But it isn't illegal to buy goods produced by slaves. Of course no business is going to be stupid enough to be too directly involved, but just being part of it is guilt enough. Without them paying for it, it wouldn't exist.
Stop pretending that slavery is some capitalist fixation when it is clearly a criminal one. Unless you give me a proof of how socialism somehow magically causes there to be no slaves, I'm not going to accept your argument.
Big businessmen are criminals. There's absolutely no doubt in my mind. They are also above the law. Look at the bankers. Those two this week received a fine they could well afford and a restriction from working within the financial industry. Hardly punitive measures. Yet someone caught stealing a meagre amount could be jailed. This is not 'fair'.
Slavery is just an extreme that capitalism naturally sinks to. If they can get away with it, they will. The chocolate company using child labour. Ikea and Primark using child labour is another recent example that springs to mind. And this is the small fry.
And no one is promoting any other ideology here. We're just reacting to your own extreme position, because it's off balance.
