You are out of your mind, Q. What a load of crap. Your view of changing to fit a globalizing world is to step back from 150 years of enlightenment with regard to the rights of workers. You view any attempt to hold onto the standards of income, safety, environmental responsibity, as stagnation. While I don't know you personally, I will say that your attitude is the enemy. It is not necessary to rebuild the wheel everytime someone steps up to modernize. Appropriate foreign policy, coupled with import laws (our marketplace is still a major bit of leverage) that encourage appropriate behaviour in the world is the answer. As noted above, the Chinese are still very much a Confucian based society. One must not yell or be strident, but rather create a circumstance where it is pragmatic to change. As long as apologists continue to make it pragmatic for them to ignore laws in these areas and thus maximize profit, they will. It it your attitude that is the problem, and by the way, outdated. We do not have to apologize for our standards of living, pensions, standards of healthcare, and workplace conditions. These are not dirty words.

Some times it is hard not to be disgusted.

Mick