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MJ1970 
Who are "those people?"
The people all over the third world that the US is throwing tax dollars and bombs at in equal proportions.
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Back to the thread topic...what I see here is a company (Foxconn) that has done an admirable job building a great manufacturing company and bringing some people in China out of poverty. I see them doing this in Brazil also. I see the rest of the world benefiting also by getting great products at affordable prices.
Like I said it is a complicated subject. Foxconn isn't necessarily doing Chinese people any favors. When you meddle with the natural order of things you will always get unexpected results.
Pests destroy crops, hit them with insecticides, pollutes environment, cancer and birth defects. Cause and effect, but not necessarily foreseeable.
Young people in China move to the city, loose family traditions, forget how to speak their native language, rural areas economically collapse, pollution, food shortages, dependency on government services. War and political unrest. All possible outcomes.
Greed and opportunistic motivation has always manipulated the course civilization and it is usually out of control and often has more negative results than positive. The US is no exception. I don't think the current system has a rosy future. The world wide ponzi scheme that we call free enterprise is just about to collapse.
Perhaps I would. It's funny, my positions on economics and politics here have had me accused (unjustly I'd add) of being a greedy, selfish prick. But here you've accused me of the opposite...being too kind to my fellow man. 
\ Go figure. 
The free enterprise system is not a Ponzi scheme.
