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Forced Labor Is the Backbone of the World’s Electronics Industry
Malaysia bills itself as “heaven for foreign companies.” Since the 1970s, the Southeast Asian nation has drawn 5,000 foreign firms from more than 40 countries to set up facilities in parts of the country specially set aside for business development. The electronics industry—the country’s largest manufacturing sector, which makes everything from semiconductors to TVs to computer keyboards—accounts for over 36 percent of the country’s exports and a quarter of its employment, according to the country’s manufacturing-development agency. United States electronics companies have invested billions in their Malaysian operations to date.
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Forced labour is the backbone of our whole economic system.
I have asked economists before: is it possible to have a working, successful economic system that doesn't rely on cheap labour in other countries or in our own? I haven't received an answer yet.
Conservatives just want to bring that cheap forced labour home. Have a two tiered society. That's why they always want to lower wages of the lowest paid workers, lower benefits to the poor and raise the wages of the ruling classes and raise corporate welfare. /rant
Yep,I could not have said it better. If they could,they would do nothing for the workers except feed them cheap,processed crap,in exchange for working and let them live on the streets.