$0.00(forced/slave labor) - $0.49 per hour
I don't care how low of a wage they work or if they were forced to work.
The reason I did not put "what ever the going wage is that country" is because that answer is nothing more than a cop out and not an actual answer.
No it isn't. If someone in Indonesia is willing to make shoes for 50 cents per hour, it's because he considers that a good wage.
More than likely it is because that is all that company is offering.
How about an intellectually honest poll option:
[x] I don't care how low their wage is, but they shouldn't be forced to work.
If you truly could care less how low their wages are is there really a difference between 5-10 cents an hour and slavery?
Yes. If people are not enslaved, they WON'T work for 5-10 cents an hour unless they consider it a decent wage. That's basic economics.
Kandahar you are neglecting a lack of worker protections (OP aside) in many countries that are essentially tossed among the sharks of the international market.
They often work for the wages they get because they have no alternative.
It is impossible to answer a question like this without knowing the cost of living. If you can get everything you need plus a little left over for 10 bucks a week, then 25 cents and hour is a decent wage.
Let me ask you this: Do Americans earn more than Indonesians simply because the government passed a law saying employers have to pay us more? If so, why not just mandate a minimum wage of a million dollars an hour, so we can all be rich?
Yes. If people are not enslaved, they WON'T work for 5-10 cents an hour unless they consider it a decent wage. That's basic economics.
I used to know all these things and reasons for things from international political economy class. Can't remember the term now. Basically countries are desperate for any foreign investment and the governments have to scrapfight over being the lowest cost labor market to outside sources of capital.
As for raising the min wage bar to a million bucks... you might as well be communist by that point.
Why would anyone work for a wage that they didn't consider fair?
And the American consumers benefit because they are able to buy the same product at a cheaper price.
this question is aimed at those who support outsourcing.
What is too low of a wage for a worker in another country working for a outsourced company?
This American dollars not Liberian or Canadian dollars.
$7.25 per hour(US federal minimum wage)
$6.25 - $7.24 per hour
$5.25 - $6.24 per hour
$4.25 - $5.24 per hour
$3.25 - $4.24 per hour
$2.25 - $3.24 per hour
$1.00 - $2.24 per hour
$0.50 - $0.99 per hour
$0.00(forced labor) - $0.49 per hour
I don't care how low of a wage they work or if they were forced to work.
The reason I did not put "what ever the going wage is that country" is because that answer is nothing more than a cop out and not an actual answer. If you do not care if people make 50 cents or only pennies an hour or simply do not care if they work in forced labor camps or prisons then have the balls to say that is what you support.
it's not really that simple, since the standard of living in different countries varies widely. so $.50/hr in one country might be a lot but be poverty level in another.
1.No choice.Unless you consider starving to death a choice.
2.Next to nothing money is better than no money.
3.They do not know they are seriously being exploited.
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