Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Everyone who took Science B-29, "Human Behavioral Biology" knows that our hunter-gathering ancestors, to whose environment we are adapted, work three to four hours per day on average, while relaxing and playing for the rest of the time...
...this: The kind of trade promoted by the World Trade Organization (WTO) locks these workers into sweatshops. Fifty thousand people protested the WTO meeting in Seattle because the WTO is an astonishing consolidation of corporate power. It has the power to override and do away with any labor, human rights and environmental standards with any democratic notions and with any transparency or responsibility that interferes with corporate profits. The rise of global sweatshops is just one effect of the rise of corporate power and of its globalizing reach. The WTO's kind of trade--trade that pretends to have...
...need not oppose the idea of a global economy to oppose the WTO's agenda; one need only despise the erosion of democracy that comes from putting corporate profits before human rights...
...shirk their responsibilities, and can cut and run to the cheapest workforce, nations become desperate to retain the jobs they can, whatever the social cost. For these workers, "free trade" is anything but that. They are denied their freedoms--freedoms of speech and of association--and denied their basic human rights by the same trade that enriches the people behind...
...look forward to a time when the conditions of life in our world will not be determined by secret meetings in the corporate interest, but by considerations for human needs and political rights...