Yes, cannot, bad typo on my part. My self-imposed net-nanny time limit for non-productive sites, cut me off.

I view low wages as an external cost like pollution. Saying you need to pay low wages is like saying you must be allowed to pollute in order to compete.

They’ll whine that ALL those jobs will go away, but they won’t. Only some will. So instead of having the 100 people at the poverty wage paying place all dependent on the dole for food stamps and health care, we’d have some of them on the dole and many of the remainder would be working at the place that paid real wages and still made decent stuff that was worth the price paid. We’d all have to do with less disposable stuff.

But that’s me, I don’t think it’s horrible to contemplate a life where we’d actually still have cobblers around because everybody actually resoled and repaired their shoes instead of buying disposable slave labor products.

And heaven forbid if the twinkies or their knock-off made in Mexico in the vending machine at work needs to $2.50 instead of a $1.25 in order to pay the people involved. That’ll do us good too.