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  • No, child slaves on cocoa farms or mines aren’t being exploited at all!

    So you’re blaming capitalism rather than uncivilized governments of these countries that fail to uphold basic human rights? Horrible take is horrible.

    On average. What about the minimum?

    I think you mean median - minimum is just arbitrarly set number. I cant find any median figure. Anyway the point is that Chinese aren’t exactly poor.

    You don’t have electronics without them. Sorry, yes they do. Also, tariffs are only on the products coming in, not the raw resources used in the production.

    You know what the funny thing is? That if there was no tarifs, there would be more demand for these goods and poduction would create more jobs with better salaries there. But EU has policy of protecting its internal market.


  • First, the notion that somone producing goods I’m paying for the amount they ask is somehow exploitative is ridiculous.

    Second, Poland has almost no economic ties neither with africa, nor vietnam. We have a lot of trade with the rest of EU and China

    Third: CHINEESE ARE EARNING ON AVERAGE TWICE WHAT WE IN POLAND DO

    Forth: European Union has Tarifs on products from OUTSIDE

    EU DOESN’T EVEN WANT CHEAP PRODUCTS FROM VIETNAM OR AFRICA

    They want the goods to be produced INSIDE the EU!!!

    What you just said is all wrong on so many levels that’s it makes me cringe.


  • Where are you from?

    I’m from Poland. I was born around the time socialist system fell, and was replaced by capitalism.

    Mistakes were made, hyperinflation destroyed all the wealth that remained in the early 90s, everyone was impoverished billionaire. Wherever you looked it was neverending gray desolation, broken, disfunctional infrastructure buliding falling apart and so on. But then government employed western economic advisors, budget has been balanced, money printing stopped, necessary reforms were made and over the next three decades Poland grew from a complete africa-like shithole into an european economic powerhouse.

    Just to put it into number average monthly salary was like 100-200 USD equivalent in the 90s vs around 2000 USD now.

    How can you dismiss achievement like this? You can’t. You probably were never told about this in the first place. What you should ask yourself is why nobody talks about it?