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Meganomics
Posted by Clif on 08/21/07 at 9:45 am
Category: Wankers
The Atlantic has given a blog and a new gig to libertarian crackpot Megan McArdle, who once advocated the extermination of old people to keep her own health insurance rates low. And even before she’s hacked up ten posts, she says something staggeringly stupid:
Sweatshop copies of great art. Weren’t many of the originals produced in similar factory-like conditions?
Er, no. I don’t think any of them were produced by factory workers who worked 16 hour days and were paid 40 cents per painting. The loathsome McCardle, of course, is asking this question because, like any good disciple of Ayn Rand, McCardle believes the free market is always right, even when it results in sweatshops, child labor, tainted foods, and lead paint.
But let’s suppose that McCardle is right and that the Mona Lisa was painted by minimum wage labor in an Italian sweatshop. Does that make the present day art reproduction sweatshops okay? I can just see McCardle’s next post:
Tainted food on store shelves. Didn’t people used to eat that stuff all the time?
