People’s beliefs are based on each individual’s personal experience, knowledge, temperament and intelligence.
People who live in developing countries do not have the expenses that we have, nor do they have clean water, clean air, good medical care, reliable infrastructure, etc. They make less money because their standard of living is so much worse than ours.
Do we really want to turn the U.S. into such a place?
IMHO, instead of dragging everyone down to the lowest common denominator, I’d prefer a global policy of fair trade where all companies that wanted to trade internationally are forced to abide by very strict rules regarding wages, benefits and working conditions for their workers.
