Also, do those well drilling operations offer 0% financing for 48 months?
Seriously though, just remember that when you are paying over $1,500 for an instrument, you’re contributing to the employment of someone in the USA, or a friendly European country.
When you spend over $650, you’re contributing to the employment of someone in Indonesia.
When you spend less than that, you are contributing to the employment of someone in China.
The figures are just rough examples, but my point is this: the cost of a good to you is someone else’s income.
Think about what you, or others you know, do for a living. Odds are, you are an expense that someone would rather not pay, or perhaps you are the cheaper alternative that is going to drive down someone else’s wages or ability to stay employed.
We have a lot of focus on wealth inequality, when the fact of the matter is that it’s not the inequality that is the matter, but the fact that there are plenty of people that don’t even have the first layer of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs sorted out.
Helping these people is complicated. We can send them clothing to help with that, but in doing so, we destroy the livelihood of everyone who was engaging in producing clothing. We can send them food, but that certainly has an impact on farmers. We can topple their corrupt regimes, and then later abandon them.
Does the intention matter or the consequence? Is there a point where inserting ourselves becomes counter productive?
No good answers at the end of the day, but I tell you, even trying to help people is harder than it seems.
