> the cheap stuff that you're getting is because someone is getting a super bad deal
And this is Bad and should be fixed. Developed countries should push poorer countries into paying better salaries to their workers and improve their conditions. This would directly benefit "westerners" too, since it would reduce migratory pressures and get a more level-playing field in economic sectors that have been wiped from these shores -- some even in quite strategic sectors, like the PPE shenanigans last year showed.
Would that mean my plastic bullshit would get more expensive? Yeah, so what? Maybe this would reignite the debate on effective redistribution in our countries too, which was basically killed in 1989.
And this is Bad and should be fixed. Developed countries should push poorer countries into paying better salaries to their workers and improve their conditions. This would directly benefit "westerners" too, since it would reduce migratory pressures and get a more level-playing field in economic sectors that have been wiped from these shores -- some even in quite strategic sectors, like the PPE shenanigans last year showed.
Would that mean my plastic bullshit would get more expensive? Yeah, so what? Maybe this would reignite the debate on effective redistribution in our countries too, which was basically killed in 1989.