On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Russell McMahon wrote:

> An independent late breaking thought. If we drew a chart with a continuum
> between the typical western standard of living and that of the salve labour
> workers "employed" by the Nazis in WW2 to produce eg V2 rockets, where on
> the chart would you plot the conditions in various "3rd world" countries who
> supply Western markets. Would be interesting to do.

About 2/3 of the way up the curve.  Conditions in various other "3rd
world" countries *NOT* supplying Western markets would be lower (places
like Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Laos, Angola).  Conditions in those countries
that *used to* simply supply Western markets (Japan, Korea, Taiwan, etc)
would be further up the curve.

Last time I checked, there were no reports of unemployed Malaysians or
Chinese being gassed or sent to the ovens.  I'd call that a pretty big
step up the "curve".

Dale

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