LoLP Episode 26: Benjamin Powell on Sweatshops

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🗓️ 13 March 2014

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Lions of Liberty Podcast, host Marc Clair welcomes in Professor Benjamin Powell, head of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech, and author of the new book “Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the Global Economy.” Marc and Ben go over common criticisms of sweatshops in third world countries. Ben describes how sweatshops often offer a better viable alternative for many people to improve their lives, and how market forces – not government edicts – provide better working conditions over time. Check out our website: Lions of Liberty[...] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton,
0:06.8	who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.
0:10.0	Hello!
0:11.0	To him, this is the best sound in the world.
0:14.0	Daddy!
0:17.0	Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all.
0:23.2	Now that's term time working.
0:24.6	Offered at Amazon.
0:26.9	Ten weeks off guaranteed per year.
0:29.1	Mix of paid holiday and unpaid time off.
0:29.9	Conditions apply. Thank you. Welcome to the Lions of Liberty podcast.
0:44.4	Here is your host, your guide, your shining beacon of liberty,
0:49.1	Mark Clare.
0:56.0	Hey, everybody.
1:01.0	Welcome back once again to another edition of the Lions of Liberty podcast.
1:12.5	Now you guys may be aware that a lot of libertarians and other free market advocates can occasionally take positions that are deemed somewhat controversial, to say the least.
1:18.6	Controversy is kind of what we do here at the Lions of Liberty podcast and over at our website,
1:24.3	linesofliberty.com, which I hope you guys are all checking out. Each and every day, we strive to advance the ideas of liberty. But enough about us.
1:29.7	Why are some things controversial?
1:31.2	That's what we have to ask.
1:35.8	It's usually because people get certain ideas in their mind, certain images.
1:41.5	They prejudge about a concept without necessarily looking deeper into it.
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