2-3x more than 5-10 cents an hour is still slave labor.
Call centers may be well paying jobs in India, but I still view it as kicking an entire society while its down.
In a way, its no different than back before the civil war, white plantation owners would have slaves work inside of the house, ie, a "house negro". The parallels between the two are rather scary.
Its almost like the Civil War was lost in the sense that all we did was export slavery to a country where its legal and accepted.
The comparison would be more apt if abolishing slavery just meant that you couldn't employ black people on plantations. But those people were given rights to work for a wage, buy property with their earnings, or run businesses. What you have right now is that people in the developing world voluntarily entering employment contracts because they are the best available so far. Simply ending those contracts does not do any service. If those contracts are not "fair", we have to ask why that is. Perhaps it is because of protectionist policies in the developed and developing world?
Your argument is not really convincing, because you have neglected to consider that wages paid in foreign markets have quite different purchasing power from the amount that they would have here. Furthermore, the element of coercion is absent.
Call centers may be well paying jobs in India, but I still view it as kicking an entire society while its down.
In a way, its no different than back before the civil war, white plantation owners would have slaves work inside of the house, ie, a "house negro". The parallels between the two are rather scary.
Its almost like the Civil War was lost in the sense that all we did was export slavery to a country where its legal and accepted.