Friedrich Engels (Tessa Darcy)

The act of shifting jobs overseas to take advantage of cheap labor sources and natural resources is not the best possible solution for our economy. Take my book, The Condition of the Working Class in England for example, in this I depict and record my observations of the wretched living conditions of the working class members in Manchester. Misery and filth is all that consumes the dingy tenements filled with overworked and hungry industrial workers. The lives of these people are already not filled with content or luxury one bit, if their jobs were to be given to others over seas in order for the government to earn more resources for a cheaper price, the lives and already insufficient wages of these people would decrease even more, causing these awful conditions described of in my book to become even worse. People are naturally good, to give them no wages by taking advantage of cheap labor sources over seas would unjustly effect them drastically. These people are already barely getting by on the wages they currently have, if they were to be given no wages at all a majority of them would die, being unable to support themselves and their families. We must also take into account how this would affect our own economy. The industrial workers take up a majority of the population, and if these people began to die due to lower wages our economy would become completely different and would not be able to support itself. We cannot trust other countries to do work for us, we never know who is really on our side, or who is ready to stab us right in the back. Labor done with our own industrial workers is "safer" in a sense because the government knows exactly what is occurring and we have the power to control these workers. If society were to become communist, the conditions and treatment of these workers as described so in my book would become even better because communism will abolish the social class label of industrial workers in factories when they are publicly owned, all will become equal. It is simple to see that if the government were to shift jobs overseas to take advantage of cheap labor sources and natural resources, it would only decrease working and living conditions for the majority and make it impossible for communism to ever occur.