Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Suicides expose stresses of China factory life

from The Globe and Mail (Canada). 

Learn more about the cheap labor that China supplies to US corporations resulting in cheap prices for consumers, but on the other hand, big profits for multi-national corporations, severe trade imbalances that require China to buy US dollars to keep the process going, which in turn, funds US wars in Asia and the Middle East and military bases everywhere in the world, unemployment in the US, de-skilling of large parts of the US workforce, housing foreclosures, and driving exploited Chinese workers to suicide. 

Ain't capitalism wonderful?!