One of the concepts that I have always, ALWAYS believed is key to a healthy, industrial minded civilization is: “A honest day’s pay for an honest day’s work.”

Everyone deserves to have some dignity in their work. Even if you are at the bottom of the ladder, you still be making enough to feel like you’re not being ruthlessly taken advantage of.

On another note, I will be the first to grant that China has seem some incredible benefits from the influx of foreign manufacturing there, but what good is a whole bunch of new infrastructure when the environment around it is crumbling to pieces?

A high rise in a wasteland won’t do any good at all. Since the dawn of man, human settlements have required the presence of natural resources to be sustainable.

I shudder to think what that country might look like one to two generations from now.

Another thing worth mentioning: I think it’s pretty clear that there is a LOT of environmental damage and other issues that are being suppressed by the communist Chinese government. I suspect it’s far worse there than we think.