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danarisyesterday at 9:22 PM3 repliesview on HN

Not if that country also legislates heavy penalties for companies that produce their goods in countries with worse labor laws.


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nickffyesterday at 9:28 PM

The economic motive for offshoring would remain (though slightly mitigated), unless that country’s demand (in each regulated sector) was much more than rest of the world’s. I personally doubt that most places are even willing to implement such legislation, given that they’re not even willing to protest PRoC’s use of slave labor and prison camps.

anomaly_yesterday at 10:35 PM

You're just going to Galapagos your economy. Consumers won't put up with high prices and inferior goods. Unless you want to restrict internet/information access so your consumers don't know what they are missing out on.

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xg15yesterday at 11:13 PM

Almost like we needed some international worker's organization to put pressure on all relevant countries at the same time...

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