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Originally Posted by SubCore View Post
human rights and profits are connected...
we have laws against 1$ salaries, minimum wage laws, laws against certain working conditions, unions etc.
Having a minimum wage law is worthless if the economy cannot back it up. You just push people into grey/black economy then. I know this all too well

the only chance i see of stopping this trend is when sometime in the future, "cheap" labourers in developing countries stand up and demand similar rights to the ones in developed countries. though that might take some time, and it might well be too late (as in: the developed countries already lowered their standards) by then.
How do you explain that the highest minimum wage is ~15x higher than the lower minimum wage *within* the European Union ? Surely folks in Portugal, Spain and in most new EU member states are not THAT bad with regard to their rights ?