[CCIP]

It's not really a rerun, it's just a continuation of the same processes. Unions, workplace safety, guaranteed standard of living are all good, but who is going to pay for it? Who's gonna provide the affordable commodities that a healthy middle class thrives on?

China's already beginning to court Africa, as though almost for the same purpose. And so the cycle of exploitation continues.

It's very difficult to see a sustainable and fair world where everyone owns an iPod and companies like Apple continue to make billions on marginally-useful things that everyone wants to get their hands on, at the expense of cheap labour and others' suffering. But that's nothing new, just a continuation of what's been going on pretty much forever. People have always believed that something - be it power, religion or level of civilized development - entitled them to take advantage of the rest of the world. In a globalized economy, the only difference is scale.