Posted On: August 6, 2008, 10:09 am CDT

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wake up people ....people trade with each other all the time such trades are the basis of your entire economy,and most of your social interactions, you say yes,but there is such a thing as fair trade and there is such a thing as manipulation. YOU ask what is the differrence? A fair trade is a straighforward transaction. You have something I want, WE AGREE THEY ARE OF MORE or less egual value , and so we trade. That,s a clean transaction. Then there,s exploitation. That,s when you have something I want and I have something you want but, they are not of equal value. But we do the trade anyway - one of us desperately - because he needs what the other has and will pay any price. This is what some multi- national corporations are doing when they offer seventy - four cents for an hour,s work in Malatsia, Indonesia, or Taiwan, They call it economic opportunity , but its exploitation , pure and simple. Finally, there,s manipulation. That,s whwn I don,t even have any intention of giving you what I am offering . IN some cases , this is unconscious. That,s bad enougH. BUT IN THE WORST CASE , but in the worst cases, its done with full awareness that what,s being made is a promise one has no intention of keeping. It is a stall, a technique, desingned to shut the other person up, to appease them in the here - and- now. It,s a lie, and its the worst kind of lie, because it soothes a wound that is going to be reopened, deeper, later on. READ THIS OVER AND OVER THINK ABOUT IT A READ IT SOME MORE. Need more information, have questions?
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