>>51145295A lot of companies don't bother doing business in former Soviet countries because they have a similarly laissez-faire attitude about foreign copyrights and the people there are usually too poor to be worth the trouble. When companies do business in places like Russia, they have to cut their prices to nothing because they're directly competing not just with piracy but with widespread bootlegging.
>>51145298They don't stand a chance in a war against the US. Only reason they're allowed to get away with all this posturing is that Globalism has convinced people that exploiting the poor is good as long as it happens in other countries. I have no idea what will happen if they push India into a war, though.
>>51145323It used to be assumed that as China became wealthier, they would naturally develop labor protections like Western countries. This is called "Whig History," the idea that prosperity and economic growth inevitably lead to political liberalization and democracy, and it's been proven false.
Nowadays it's just so entrenched that nobody feels anything can be done about it. I remember there was one company pitching their idea on Shark Tank and one of the sharks thought they were retarded for manufacturing in the US. Hell, Trump tried to start a trade war with China and most people thought that was a BAD thing, because free trade good, right?
Fuck China.
