From:	IronRaven cyberraven@********.net
Subject:	Industrial Action (was Re: Harrowing of Focus (sic))
Date:	Thu, 26 Aug 1999 15:40:30 -0400

>People in this thread seem to think that a corporation employing staff
>at starvation-level wages in a third-world country would run into

If they don't, it is becuase the terretorial governemnt already has
control of that form of buisness. Look at NorKor, the USSR (Stalin-era),
Romania under Chouchescue (sp), the 3rd Reich and any other totalitarian
countries.
In either case, bribes will have to be paid.

>dictator is more likely to support the company that starves its
>employees than the one that pays well. A population whose biggest

You can try to oppress the people into line, ala Stalin, or you can keep
them mostly happy. You're talking about things that used to work twenty
years ago, but the media penetration has been too deep in the past decade.
Besides, a "starvation wage" in America is good money in the most of
Africa, Asia and south of the Rio Grande.

>>then you start thinking. You start remembering just what Big Chief
>>President Dick Tater told you would happen if you would aid his
>>revolution. You remember the rhetoric about having a better life. And

People remember this stuff better when they realise that if can live with
smell, the rest of the family will eat better if you notify the governemtn
that little Johny died last night.

>that your new employers seem to shrug off with their magical medicines
>that come in plastic bottles. You begin to notice all kinds of things

Excuse me? Anyplace where there is enough infrastructure to run a
factory, no one is going to fall for that old line about "White Man's
Magic". That is in 1999. In 60 years, folks are still going to know that.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that just becuase someone's way of life
is "primitive" by Western standards that they are stupid. Uneducated,
maybe, but not backwards. If you doubt that, call a local medium and try
and contact any of missionaries that have stopped a spear, arrow or load of
buckshot.



Kevin Dole, aka CyberRaven, aka IronRaven, aka Steel Tengu
http://members.xoom.com/iron_raven/
"Once again, we have spat in the face of Death and his second cousin,
Dismemberment."
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your philosophy."