"K. Feete" schreef:
> My suggestion would be that American based
How about every company according to the laws of their home... Now that would
make it rather complex. So maybe an international law for countries abroad.
No that wouldn't work either...
> corporations be forced to follow American law even when they're operating
> in other countries.
> Obviously that won't work all the way- the minimum wage, for example-
Couple the minimum wage to the McDonalds index. Then you'd probably get fair
wages.
> but there are a *lot* of laws that I can't see *any* problem with enforcing
>
> elsewhere. Child labor laws, regulations on the length of the working
> day, environmental protection standards... these are not optional, they
> are moral imperitives that everyone, *everyone*, EVERYONE, should have to
> follow, no matter what sort of profit they have to sacrifice. And no
> matter what the local laws may be.
I envision that that might result in some chaos.
Because the wages paid by that big overseas company are much higher they have
the potential to deplete the available work force (people might even resort
to kill others to get one of that nice jobs with the overseas company). And
who'd wanne work for a local wage if they could get twice or thrice that from
the American company. This would result in an unnatural rise of the local
economy prices and therefor this company would create a big cleft between the
two types of workers. The ones working for foreign companies and the ones
working for local companys. Not really good for development of self
sustaining local industry.
The local companys would have to start investing into safety, shorter working
hours, environmental policy and more social stuff. Also they'd have to pay
higher wages in order to attract good enough workers. This has the potential
to put them out of business because they cannot sell their stuff on the local
market and they usually don't have acces to any other markets. Also no good.
If you think about it a little longer you can see that all kinds of trouble
could come from that, it isn't the way I like it, but there also isn't an
easy answer to the problem.
Sonja
