Top officers of American based multinational corporations received an opportunity from the advent of automation and the virtual abolition of import tariffs to demonstrate what humankind would do left to its own devices. These people chose to keep the increased profits for the benefit of a few top executives of the corporations, to discard American workers like so many old dish rags and to export jobs heretofore done well by American workers to workers in nations which allow subsistence level wages, not to mention lax environmental and labor laws.
The argument has been made that these exported jobs have actually helped those in the slave labor nations by increasing their wages. It's not that the wages haven't increased. It's that the point from which the wages were raised were so low that the new wages are still subsistence wages. Furthermore, the argument seems to be made as if to imply that the betterment of these slave labor nation workers played into why corporations actually sent the jobs to those nations in the first place. Call me cynical, but I find that hard to believe. Go ahead, you're allowed to disagree with me. This is The Former United States of America after all.
Although some nation states have been referred to as "communist countries" throughout history, I submit that, in light of what pure communism is supposed to look like, there has never been nor will there ever be a "communist country".
I've never even heard anyone even pretend that there's been an anarchist nation state in history.
I do believe there have been Libertarian nations, but we refer to them as Fascist nations.
"Wait!" you say. "Libertarians believe in minimal or no government intrusion. It states that the only purpose of government is to protect the Mother Land or Father Land (I've yet to hear the phrases "Brother Land" or "Sister Land", but that's just me). We all know that Mussolini ruled over Italy with an iron fist and Franco didn't spend a lot of time soliciting suggestions from Spaniards on how to improve his governing process."
"You're right," I would reply.
However, I would remind you that both Mussolini and Franco did solicit input from corporations and that alliance, at least according to some antiquated, non corporate published dictionaries, was and is a mainstay of Fascism.
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