OverclockedJesus Posted:

Because of government regulations.

Did the government regulate that Wal-Mart close down the store? Their tiptoeing around the rules means it was the governments fault? If it weren’t for the government, the legitimate attempt at unionization would have been successful and through theit hard work they would have an improved work situation instead of being unemployed?

OverclockedJesus Posted:

Yes there is. The power of trade is far different from the power of a gun.

Yet amazingly through the power of trade you can purchase the time of people who can then be equipped with guns who may do as you ask. Hired hitmen let’s say, thugs who will break your knees with a baseball bat. The power of money is amazing that way in that can purchase both goods AND services.

OverclockedJesus Posted:

It does. They wouldn’t be working in the so-called sweatshop if they didn’t think it would benefit them. But you go on and believe that value is objective and precisely what YOU think value should be. After all: you get to rule over everyone, right? Y’see: you don’t get to determine what is of benefit to someone else.

This is true, except that when your options are between starving to death in a gutter, theft and working in a sweatshop, some people will choose the method of survival that doesn’t involve jail. Having no other reasonable choice to survive doesn’t make it a choice when we have that pesky survival instinct moving us forward. And although there may well be other choices, it doesn’t help if people don’t know what they are through lack of education brought about by their socioeconomic status that was placed on them most often at birth.