So everyone is in an uproar about jobs being outsourced and the purchase of things overseas that are taking away jobs here in the US. I don't necessarily have a problem with people's objections to this; however, we have been purchasing items from overseas for decades without any complaints.
The real issue I have with all of this is the fact that we don't seem have a problem with a fourteen year old girl in China working 18 hour days for 6 cents an hour, but are in an uproar because we are losing technology jobs to India. I don't like either scenario, don't get me wrong. I am just wondering how we as Christians here in the western world can be so oblivious and self absorbed.
Yes, we should be concerned with whether or not we and other Americans are being treated fairly economically speaking, but we should be more concerned by clear violations of human rights over-sees in the name of Global capitalism than we are about mild inconveniences domestically. What I mean is this; when you get mad that the pair of jeans you are holding, do you take a second to wonder if the person who made them was payed a fair market value?
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