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Not to mention significant amounts of slave labor, child labor, war profiteering, fraud, outright theft, etc.

In other words, by similar logic it could be called “holier-than-thou” for westerners to have any standards whatsoever about investment choices, because our wealth is built on all kinds of unsavory sources.



And you will see the likes of China pull that card whenever there is some kind of international talk about something that will affect their industries.


  "by similar logic..."
Please...do other countries currently have 22% of GDP tied to [slave labor, child labor, war profiteering, fraud, outright theft, etc.]?

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/count...

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  In other words, by similar logic it could be called “holier-than-thou” 
  for westerners to have any standards whatsoever about investment choices,
  because our wealth is built on all kinds of unsavory sources.
I also find it ironic that "westerner" in your world doesn't seem to include Norwegians ;-).




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