Thomas Sowell con la claridad de siempre sobre uno de los grandes clásicos de la progresía internacional. ¡Qué se vayan todas las multinacionales de la Argentina (y que me lleven con ellas)!
One of the morally indignant "films" (more high-toned than "movies") coming out of Hollywood makes the same complaint against Starbucks, depicting poverty-stricken Ethiopian coffee growers providing beans for the big-bucks coffee store chain.
Are the Ethiopian coffee growers worse off now that Starbucks is buying their beans? Supply and demand would suggest otherwise. But moral crusaders seldom have time for economics.
If those who claim to be concerned about the Ethiopians' poverty really are, why is not relieving that poverty just as much something for them to do with their own money as for Starbucks to do using money invested by other people -- including nurses, mechanics, teachers, and others who are paying into pension funds to provide for their own old age?
The tragic fact is that productivity is far lower in poor countries. That is the fundamental reason why they are poor in the first place. You cannot pay American wages to workers whose average productivity is a fraction of that of American workers, without driving up the cost of production to the point where businesses will take their jobs to some other country.
No me extraña la calidad del artículo ya que, en mi opinión, Thomas Sowell es uno de los mejores columnistas de los Estados Unidos. Sus argumentos en favor de las ideas liberales (conservadoras, para él) son de una lógica irrefutable.
ReplyDeleteTambién son excelentes sus libros sobre economía.
Thomas Sowell es un maestro.
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