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originally posted by: DexterRiley
a reply to: jacobe001
250 Million Chinese had their lands bull dozed and stolen and forced to move to the cities to make widgets.
There was nothing voluntary or Free about it which is required under Free Market Capitalism
I had not heard about that. Did that happen recently? I know that Chinese Chairman Mao did a lot of this kind of crap during the 1950s and 1960s. But you would think that the US would have penalized China for behavior like this if it had happened within the last couple of decades.
But of course the US Corporatocracy wouldn't allow anything to spoil America's good relations with China. Never let a "necessary" little human rights violation get in the way of profit.
-dex
Across China, bulldozers are leveling villages that date to long-ago dynasties. Towers now sprout skyward from dusty plains and verdant hillsides. New urban schools and hospitals offer modern services, but often at the expense of the torn-down temples and open-air theaters of the countryside.
“It’s a new world for us in the city,” said Tian Wei, 43, a former wheat farmer in the northern province of Hebei, who now works as a night watchman at a factory. “All my life I’ve worked with my hands in the fields; do I have the educational level to keep up with the city people?
originally posted by: TrueAmerican
Ha. A little better retribution. Just thought I'd post the video again. Except instead of 3,000 views, this one has over 2.4 MILLION views:
In addition, the story made it to Drudge Report. Suffice it to say that Carrier is going to get a lot of very unsavory phone calls. I'd say critical mass was achieved.
But will even that be any deterrence to the greedy? I doubt it.
Some young people feel lucky to have jobs that pay survival wages of about $150 a month;
...
But south of Chengdu in Shuangliu County, farmers who gave up their land for an experimental strawberry farm run by a county-owned company said they receive an annual payment equivalent to the price of 2,000 pounds of grain plus the chance to earn about $8 a day working on the new plantation.
“I think it’s O.K., this deal,” said Huang Zifeng, 62, a farmer in the village of Paomageng who gave up his land to work on the plantation. “It’s more stable than farming your own land.”
originally posted by: jellyrev
a reply to: TrueAmerican
1992+15 2007
1992+25 2017
so its almost been 25 years
$6/hr then is $10.14/hr now. I'd say we are getting close.
originally posted by: DexterRiley
a reply to: jacobe001
So the Chinese, in an effort to transition their economy to be consumer based, are destroying an ancient culture and way of life. They are forcefully displacing these peasant farmers and taking their property to either bulldoze into parking lots or give to larger farming collectives. I can't even imagine the anguish these people are feeling about having to completely change everything they know.
originally posted by: DexterRiley
a reply to: jacobe001
There is simply NO WAY to compete with those slave wages.
-dex
originally posted by: NightSkyeB4Dawn
There is no incentive to become skilled in any arena anymore, as long as someone else if cutting your pay check. People need to get back to basics and only buy from local Mom and Pop businesses. That is the only way they are going to have a thriving community. Big business is not about community and workers. They are about profits and their bottom-line. Everything else is forfeit; the community, the environment, the lives of their workers, and the community be damned.
originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: ArchangelUriel
There is no choice. Either make it work where you are, or go broke with honour.
It is better to die penniless, than live without honour.
originally posted by: TrueAmerican
Ha. A little better retribution. Just thought I'd post the video again. Except instead of 3,000 views, this one has over 2.4 MILLION views:
In addition, the story made it to Drudge Report. Suffice it to say that Carrier is going to get a lot of very unsavory phone calls. I'd say critical mass was achieved.
But will even that be any deterrence to the greedy? I doubt it.
originally posted by: kosmicjack
a reply to: jacobe001
Agreed. You should do a thread.
People often try to define the NWO in cultural terms but it's always been more about consolidating business interests and natural resources (that includes people too - human resources - and so there is the confusion about culture) to the benefit of a select few mega corporations (and the super elite that control them) by using government to facilitate it.