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- Libertarian - Right
Call it what you want, and hint that 80% of human beings living on less then $10 a day as needing to try harder all you want, the fact is, capitalists always search for the cheapest labor, always look to pay the lowest wage, that's why we struggled for the minimum wage, labor unions, factory safety laws, child labor laws, etc.. The issue with that is, I always hear about the beauty of competition, but, if doing better in competition involves exploiting laborers at a dramatic level to produce more profit, E.G. Sweatshops, how is that good? Workers are underpaid in the majority of the world, if a sweatshop worker produces $100 in clothing in an hour and gets paid pennies, I don't see how that's not underpaid.
This is America dude. Lets stick to this country. you can rage against the machine all you want but it just comes off as butt hurt envy here. The fact is capitalism and corporations have raised the standard of living for everyone substantially.