On May 29, 7:34�pm, Douglas Johnson wrote:
harry wrote:
The problem is the Chinese slave workforce. �And the fact they hold
don't allow their currency to float. �These sort of things never went
on in Smith's day.

Wrong at least twice. �The workforce in China is not slave. �In many respects,
it is more free than workforces in the US and UK. �The Chinese may take any job
they can get hired for, at any wage, and with any benefits they can negotiate.
True, in many cases, those wages are far less than the US or UK. �But, in many
cases, it beats the hell out of working in a rice paddy.

And slavery certainly existed in Adam Smith's day, both in the US and the UK.

-- Doug

Bit about Chinese workers rights here. You are in cloud cuckoo land.
Do you just make these statements to be contrary?
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/work...a/wr_china.htm

There was no slavery in the UK, laws prevented it, unlike in the USA.
However these laws did not extend to places like Jamaica where slavery
certainly went on.

Bit here on the topic if you're that interested.
http://www.lonympics.co.uk/serfdomadefinition.htm

Why don't you check out your facts before blurting out such crap?
Took me two minutes to find these.


This one is of interest too.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...uk-429939.html