[ExI] government corruption

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I for one don't get a few things - we have globalism, so import duties are
not sound business sense. Its
always going to bite. But what if ...

- when importing goods the US determines the effective difference in price
the same goods goods are, whether
or not they manufactured by american workers in americam or chinese workers
in china. In other words, an
identical salad spinner costs 20$ to make in the US and 5$ to make in china,
and another 3 to import. The
difference is in part calculated to be worth no more than 7$ due to low
wages in China (the rest being lax
industry standards or efficiency or ruthlessness) - Now the US determines
that this 7$ is unfair worker benefit
and levies a tax. Now the great thing is - *the US doesn't get to keep it*.
They send it back, at minimal (<3%)
overhead in administrative costs, and give it NOT to the chinese government
but only, and exclusively, to the
chinese workers that made the salad spinners. Everybody wins - the rackets
are still cheaper, american workers
get a better competition position, chinese people get extra money and
chinese economy becomes stronger.

In fact - I see actions like these are nothing but extensions of fair free
market practices. People in spot A suffer
in competitiveness because they have succeeded in not living like slaves.
People in spot B get more money
and become, hopefully, somewhat less like slaves. Call it a unfair human
exploitation tariff. If the Chinese object,
dump rthe money in the coffers of independent chinese worker unions. Best
part is rich countries can implement
this measure and benefit themselves AS WELL as producing countries. Worst
case, spoiled obese idiots get
slightly more expensive salad spinners.

2009/2/27 spike <spike66 at att.net>

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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org
> > [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of
> > Stathis Papaioannou
> ...
> > As for efficiency, medical care in the US costs about twice
> > as much as in any comparable country, with outcomes such as
> > infant mortality and life expectancy near the bottom of the
> > OECD list...
> > Stathis Papaioannou
>
> I am surprised it is only twice as much.  Anything American made is three
> times as much as anything made in China.  Those life expectancy lists
> should
> be broken down by cause of death.  Most of it likely has little or nothing
> to do with the quality of medical care.  People who are murdered should not
> be in there, nor those who slay themselves abusing drugs.  Neither of these
> are the medics' fault.  Somewhere there probably exists data on this.
>
> Then too, we should eventually recognize the fact that different human
> genotypes have inherently different life spans.  Polynesians for instance,
> seldom live into their 80s.  Shorter lived genotypes have higher birth
> rates
> currently, pushing the life expectancy lower.
>
>
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