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[QUOTE=&quot;Rickideemus, post: 115942, member: 12677&quot;]It's a decision of the companies that sell the products. I think China is a sweet spot right now. You can build a factory (there aren't revolutionaries in the street every day, blowing stuff up), yet you can get reliable labor at a very cheap price.It's not about making a country less poor, it's about making the company more rich. If the CEO and board make anything else their top priority, they can be sued by the stockholders. They have a fiduciary responsibility.They are a communist nation. Communism doesn't work, pure and simple. Even if we could get a working democracy in there, it would take a couple generations for their standard of living to come up to ours. They have a ton of work to do on infrastructure -- sewer systems, power lines, roads ... EVERYthing. Everyday, we rely on the work done by previous generations to set up a system that provides the basics. It doesn't happen overnight.Let's say China had an extra trillion dollars to blow on good relations with the citizens. They really don't, but just say. They have 1.35 billion people over there. That's $740 for every man woman and child. How long is that going to last?Rick[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="Rickideemus, post: 115942, member: 12677"]It's a decision of the companies that sell the products. I think China is a sweet spot right now. You can build a factory (there aren't revolutionaries in the street every day, blowing stuff up), yet you can get reliable labor at a very cheap price. It's not about making a country less poor, it's about making the company more rich. If the CEO and board make anything else their top priority, they can be sued by the stockholders. They have a fiduciary responsibility. They are a communist nation. Communism doesn't work, pure and simple. Even if we could get a working democracy in there, it would take a couple generations for their standard of living to come up to ours. They have a ton of work to do on infrastructure -- sewer systems, power lines, roads ... EVERYthing. Everyday, we rely on the work done by previous generations to set up a system that provides the basics. It doesn't happen overnight. Let's say China had an extra trillion dollars to blow on good relations with the citizens. They really don't, but just say. They have 1.35 billion people over there. That's $740 for every man woman and child. How long is that going to last? Rick[/QUOTE]

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