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Sunday 23 September 2012

Most Americans who travel overseas suffer the same hang-up. It’s what Mitt Romney felt when he saw all those young women working at that Chinese factory he once considered buying. There’s a kind of awe in his voice as he describes how hard these women work, for how little money, under circumstances most Americans would consider slave labor. Romney sees the story as a kind of inspirational morality tale about capitalism: this is how the poor should behave. They should be grateful for any opportunity to better themselves. “This is an amazing land and what we have is unique and fortunately it is so special we are sharing it with the world.” The real problem with America isn’t that we have too many poor people but that our poor are insufficiently grateful. That, in a nutshell, is Romney’s pitch—not just to the swells eating $50,000 chicken breasts; to all of us. The Week In Greed #14: My Job Is Not To Worry About Those People

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