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  Alexander, what is wrong with using cheap labour overseas? That's the way developing countries, well, develop.
  By insisting that We somehow boycott goods manufactured from these places all We do is end up behaving like imperialists and imposing our exceedingly dodgy ideas of how things should be done on those who wish to pull themselves out of the pit of poverty.
  Remember, also, that if We were to buy only those goods produced in developed nations We would be demanding even more in an increase in wages and inflation would rocket because We would have to pay more for those goods.
  Strangely enough this can also be applied to environmentalism where the greedy Westerners choose to exploit and rob developing nations by denying them much needed electricity and consigning millions to their death by way of the Wests' forbidding some countries to use DDT to combat malaria.
  Instead they imposed environmentally right on bed nets which leftists insist are the way forward because they don't "hurt the planet".
  Then there is the issue of growing biofuels which means increased starvation in poverty stricken countries when they could be growing food but, alas once again, this all in the name of saving the planet.
  Of course certain fools who believe in the myth of fairtrade still carry on buying fairtrade tea and chocolate which only compounds the levels of poverty in Africa and other places.

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