Terry Blue
Terry Blue
Ha Joon Chang blasts the inequality of free market capitalism. In this speech and in previous books he clearly illustrates the difference of pay for a Swedish bus driver to drivers in the third world. he says there is really no way to measure the work ability of two different drivers and the fact that Sven in Sweden is so grossly overpaid to Ahmed in India shows the unequalness of free market model of globalization. It is skewed towards people in the West over people in the third world and is a result of a long legacy of colonialism in the free market history of global trade. The West has used the peon pay and exploitation of workers from overseas to enriched themselves is Ha Joon Chang's basic proclamation over the years.
Ha Joon's take on the poor pay of Indian drivers compared to how outrageously the governments of the Scandinavian countries are able to pay their drivers really hits home as a traffic expert. Like Mr Chang says Indian drivers really are more likely more skilled at their occupation compared to Sveum as they have much more dangerous daily obstacles that their counterparts in the rich world never face. Are Swedish roads so much more difficult for drivers to transverse justifying their higher pay Joon wonders and marvels that it is actually the streets of Mumbai and Delhi that are much more stressful and dangerous for a working driver. The Ahmeds have to drive for a couple of rupels a day while Sveum and his co-workers have the most lavish pay and health care benefits in the free market world. Basically the free market world only favors those that are already rich and work to keep those poor always behind and driving shopping carts.
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