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Trickson, I think Steevo summed mit up best: speak with your wallet.

I agree, sending jobs OS has been the mainstay of gov't policy for some time and the results in AUS are as severe as in the US I imagine.

I am not saying live in a wood cabin with logs cut from a stone axe, but that is where people always go with this type of discussion. I love modern living, the access to modern medicine and information that is unparrelled in human history etc. These things are great.

But some things are wrong, and when we see that they are wrong we can look for other answers. I just bought an AUS made gas heater, it cost more and there was only one model, but it supports industry at home with apprenticeshiops and trade skills. The carpet in our house is dyed without harmful pigments and milled here in AUS, and again costs more.

I don't live with earthen floors and no heating, for f@$ks, sake, who would choose that.

As to Mailman and Solaris, what is your point guys, you have been happy taking the piss out of my point, but what is yours.
Are you happy to support jobs going overseas, is that funny?
Is it ok for murder and rape to be byproducts of our consumerism as long as we are not reminded of it?
Is being thoughtful wrong because we may all go back to living in caves?


Obviously you didn't make these things happen, but they are happening.
What are you suggesting.

Tye

The point cheif is that lard and diamonds arent related to PCs thei related to food products jewlery cars planes, watches. etc etc. and those are only a few. talking with your wallet might MIGHT help a LITTLE but talking with your wallet for every problem leaves you with nothing considering what other companies do. pushing this wallet nonesense gets old. You need to do ALOT more to fix the problem than that. I would appreciate it if you didnt automatically assume I found it all amusing. However I do find your solution to the problem VERY amusing. How can YOU change the way a factory in a country works 11000 miles away? or a boat in the middle of the pacific. Or the sapphires in your watch?
 

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Fair points to both of you. I can only agree to disagree.

Tye
 

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Everything will sort itself out.

As China becomes the biggest capita-communist country in the world it relies heavily on overseas investment. More and more wealth is being created in China and more and more workers are consuming as we in the West do. Strikes have been happening across China and wages have risen. This trend will continue until the cheap labour has gone or China collapses in on itself.
And a 3rd or 2nd world country will always offer cheaper labor but as the economy of that country develops so too does it's wealth. As it's wealth increases it's wages rise, it's production costs increase and it becomes less enticing to invest in.

But hey, silver lining, GLO FO has opened it's new plant in NY and Germany produces fantastic everything (except military leaders). As for Nike, yeah..... Air Max 90 made in China. My best trainers ever.
 
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So people working in China want to die because they work to hard and people in America want to die because they can't find a job to pay their bills because the jobs were all outsourced to China. Go figure.
 

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You know what this is just pure BS ! ALL of it ! Stop the treats and do it ! Now you want to get me interested in this really interested ? Then DO IT ! Post it on youtube ! I would be far more interested in seeing 1000 Chinese taking there lives than just threatening to do it . Bunch of pussies if you ask me !
 
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