People see this, and often they just see it as Romney being an racist greedy bastard.
What I wish more people would see, is that this is the future for Americans under Capitalism. This is Capitalism in practice, anything poverty can reduce a person to, anything poverty can FORCE a person to submit to, is considered voluntary.
Under Capitalism, what workers receive in pay and the working conditions workers endure is primarily determined by the worker's minimum needs and by the capitalists' requirements for labor power in relation to the number of workers competing for jobs.
Let this not be construed as a vilification of all capitalists. An individual capitalist may value employees as human beings, and this confuses some people, just as it confused people that there were kindly kings, and kindly slave owners. But their kindness only hid the cruelty of the system.
An individual capitalist can be kind but the system is tyrannical, an individual capitalist can respect workers as people but the capitalist system does not and can not. Capitalism as a system reduces workers to disposable units of labor to be consumed and discarded onto the trash heaps of the economy.
And the Free Market SAZ's in China represent the perfect system for Global Capitalism, people are forced to choose between working and living in inhuman slave like conditions and watching their children starve, people are forced to choose between dying on the streets or being worked to death in conditions that even keeping animals in would be have people up in arms about. As if people can choose to live without need or want. All of this is considered voluntary and ideal, for within the system this maximizes profitability and that's the whole point of capitalism, to maximize profits for the capitalist.
Look at the conditions of these workers again, and the giddy glee over the desperation and slave like conditions of the employees, because this is a roadmap for the future of America.
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