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> If 1 additional person falls overboard every million man hours worked but everyone gets cheaper shipping, do I care? No, not really.

This is one of the most selfish comments I have read in a while. You don't even care. If your only goal is to be able to buy more stuff without any ethical consideration you are a danger for everybody else in other countries, in other states, or anybody that is not you.

Looking into three economic side, worse work conditions attract less people and jobs to vacant. Your conclusion very is simplistic.



It's easy to see why that looks "selfish," but it's less easy to see the distributed effects of higher prices, fewer jobs, and less efficient markets so that you can sit remote from all of it and declare yourself to be more ethical than your neighbor.


Everything has a price. You can’t have much of a society without creating risks of injury.




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