Re: a fourteen-year-old

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Geeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Mexico, China, Asia. Latin America...
>Throw a dart at a map of South America.  If it lands on a poverty
>stricken area, chances are Rubbermaid, Nike, GE and hundreds of other
>corporations have sweat shop/slave/child labor factories there.
>To be fair, GE prefers Mexico, poor Asian areas and China.

>What's the real difference between a Malasian "sweat shop" and
>"slave labor?"

Well, you can have a "sweat shop" with long hours and low pay without
any actually slavery.  You can have child labor without any slavery.

>Can you say with 100% certainty, taking bribery\corruption into
>considrration,that there is NO child labor in Malasia?

I can't be sure there isn't slave labor in Philadelphia.  In fact, I'd
bet there is (where the slaves are illegal immigrants).
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                            [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."  But extreme restriction of liberty in pursuit of 
a modicum of security is a very expensive vice.