> Olin, your reply seems rather brutal. You refer to 
> improving
> conditions in other countries as "a problem" I suppose 
> that in many
> cases, sending that $0.50 to a poor person for work is in 
> fact a good
> thing (the invisible hand at work), but not if it in fact 
> continues to
> encourage the repression and lack of proper working 
> standards.

I thought Olin's response was 'interesting'.
If taken at face value that's what traditionally is labelled 
"The ugly American" stance. But in this case it just 
possibly could have been the 'cynically laid back' or 
'intelligent troll' or tongue in cheek or sarcastic mode. 
Occam's Razor (which is by no means certain to offer the 
correct answer) says 'Ugly American' is to be preferred.

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_American

Wikipedia doesn't seem to have entries for most of the 
others :-)
Maybe a shoe in in compensation.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occams_razor

Is this still EE ?
Had to think about that.
Another jump or two ], and no.
At present it still relates (marginally) to international 
cost of work, how we are seen and what it costs to get 
things done.
US is a factor in all that. You can have eg UNZ or course 
but it hasn't got the same buy in.



        Russell




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