A couple of years ago I wrote a post about
global feudalism, but it’s much worse than I thought.
This eye-opening programme is shameful. As
Kerry O’Brien says at the end: out of sight, out of mind. This is the so-called
level playing field in action. Jobs going overseas because the labour is
cheaper. Actually it’s jobs going overseas because it’s virtually slave labour -
I’m talking literally not figuratively.
But more revelatory than anything else is
that there is no code of ethics for these companies unless it is forced upon
them. They really don’t care if the workers, who actually create the products
they sell, die or are injured or are abused. When things go wrong they do their
best to avoid accountability, and, like all criminals, only own up when
incontrovertible evidence is produced.
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Paul, I commend a listen to Dan Carlin's Common Sense podcast #236 - Trapped By the Inflexible Mind (September 6, 2012). Free on iTunes or available via this link: http://www.dancarlin.com/csredir.php?show=Show-236---Trapped-by-the-Inflexible-Mind
He nails this issue.
Hi TAM,
Thanks, I'll check it out.
I'm currently reading Colin McGinn's Basic Structures of Reality; Essays in Meta-Physics, but I wouldn't recommend it. I'll review it on Amazon when I finish, but I'll only give it 1 star for good spelling and grammar. Yes, it's that bad.
Regards, Paul.
Ha! McGinn seems to be unraveling as of late. I bought his novel Bad Patches but not sure if it will make it to the top 100 of my unread library anytime soon.
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