What's wrong with exploiting cheap labor overseas?

Question

If they're willing to work for low wages, who are we to judge?

As they say: you can't rape the willing.

Answer 1

Hey at one time England Used us the cheap Labor and look how good it was for us! every few years the "cheap Labor" status moves to other countries and promotes increases in technologies as well. The Governments of those countries Invite us and even give companies big incentives, so It is really their own people asking for it.

Answer 2

Seeing as how a community and or nation survives and grows according to the work it produces , our standard of living is reduced by employing labor outside this nation .
True ,profits are increased, for those people who run a business that employees this labor if it is cheaper then it would pay workers in the local community . This does lower the price of items that the average consumer will and must purchase .
So if John and Tom make shoes at a cost of $5 a pair for materials glues and warehousing and want to earn the average living then they will need to make $25 dollars an hour to have a home car and keep food on the families table . That means the shoes can cost as much as $30. If they can each make a single pair in an hour .
Now suppose that hector and jaun make shoes and to have the average life in Argentina they need to make only $8. an hour to have a home , car and food on the table . $13. for the same shoes .
Now sinse competition has forced the local shoe maker out of business and Tom and John ship to retailers around the country they have to pay them $30. for the same shoe they can get from jaun and hector for $13. Now they can sell the shoes $18.99 a pair whereas Tom & Johns shoes have to sell for at least $35.99 to make the same profit .
Now which do we have more of In America . People who pay $35.99 or people who pay $18.99 .
This means tom and john can not compete with hector & jaun . Because the standard of living in Argentina is so much lower that no matter what Tom & John do they can not compete with Hector & Juan .The cost of roads is cheaper the cost of the airport was cheaper everything is cheaper in Argentina . So Tom & John go before congress and request an import tax of $17. so they can still operate a shoe business . They fail because they have no big lobby working for them . The ajax corporation who is buying hector and Juans shoes is cleaning up in the shoe market and john and tom must take jobs working for ajax cleaning the floors at $8.00 an hour . Now you could tell John & Tom to go back to school and get a degree and jump on the government gravy train .John and Tom just need to spend $40,000 dollars on some more education so they can get ahead here is all right . Well tom was johns brother who was born mentally challenged and while he could glue the shoes together and put them in boxes he has no other skills and can learn none . Mean while hector and jaun sell the shoe business to a relative convert the cash to American dollars and bring the entire 25 people from there family here to work for the lowest wages paid . There was no work for them in Argentina but americans are lazy and will pay for people to wash cars cut grass paint and fix things so now Juans whole family is here and all 12 of them are working for $5.15 an hour or even a little less and making 50 dollars an hour . Soon they find John and Toms old business up for sale at a foreclosure sale and buy the shoe making equipment and start a business in mexico just 20 miles from where they live in texas .They begin to import shoes again in no time . Putting the competition in Argentina out of business .

As long as you only consider profit and loss and not the value of the lives affected by those choices you can always find someone to do it cheaper even if it means importing products we know are made by slave labor .

Nothing good comes from exporting jobs and it only hurts this nation every time we lose a job that paid enough to buy a home car and keep food on the table .
BY THE WAY THAT SHOULD BE ALL JOBS .

Answer 3

No one who works for a living should have to live in poverty!! An honest days pay for an honest days work is not much to expect from any Employer!! To not do so is to keep them in perpetual Poverty!! It's short of immoral not to do so!! If they want to improve the lives of people working for poverty level wages the they will have to pay above Poverty level wages!! You cannot enrich others without enriching yourself!! Pay the a fair and equitable wage!! The value you place on your workers is the value you place on yourself!! An honest days pay is long overdue by the Government and Employers in the U.S.!! There are eight{8*}+ million American workers working for poverty level wages in the U.S.!!!

Answer 4

it's immoral but not wrong. keep on doing that and your kids will have to move to India to work in the future....

Answer 5

Here's another point. Doesn't keeping your costs low make it better for you to keep your prices low?