"Purchasers just looking for something cheap from China will get it — cheap in every sense of the term. That’s not China’s fault: it’s early stage industrialization. Britain’s factory life was dirty, slipshod, and dangerous in Charles Dickens’s era, and America’s was in the day of Upton Sinclair. And, frankly, American consumers just looking for something cheap will get it too. So avoid Chinese toys if you feel you must. But let’s not make this the basis for a big fiesta of anti-China-ism."
Considering that my shirt comes from Honduras, Mr. B.’s new sandals from Vietnam, and his mother’s new shorts from Mongolia, that’s good advice. Globalization is only all bad if you’re a Marxist.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Marxists have a tough time with globalization. On one hand they cry about jobs lost in the Western countries, on the other – they cannot, since these jobs surface in the third world. Kind of difficult to be anti-globalization and a Marxist.
Marxists have a tough time with globalization. On one hand they cry about jobs lost in the Western countries, on the other – they cannot, since these jobs surface in the third world. Kind of difficult to be anti-globalization and a Marxist.
The real killer will come when there is, effectively, no more third world, and nothing is ever cheap again. Though I suppose that may take a thousand years or so. Fortunately.
The real killer will come when there is, effectively, no more third world, and nothing is ever cheap again. Though I suppose that may take a thousand years or so. Fortunately.