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- Great.
- Hi.
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Sorry to butt in a minute,
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but we're supposed to meet
Manduka Djubango...
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- Oh, God.
- ...at 10:00.
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And then we both started laughing,
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which was really not convenient
for the context.
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So we left, and we just decided
that, basically,
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we couldn't figure out what else
we could possibly do at this conference,
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so we just thought, "Well,
let's go to Helsinki instead."
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So, this is the paper.
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On the front page-
I just discovered it...
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it says there's a seminar
at the university
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and that somebody talked
about controlling remote workers
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with electrical impulsions.
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And then you turn to the page, and...
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...and that's what you get.
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And this right here represents
the World Trade Organization.
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This...is
the World Trade Organization.
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I went down to these
Mexican border towns in the mid '80s.
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They were called "Maquilladoras"
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when they had
the first trade agreements
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between Mexico and the United States.
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And everyone was saying, "This is
gonna raise Mexico out of poverty,"
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and things were gonna be so great,
and within ten years,
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they'd all be driving
shiny new cars in Mexico.
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And I went down there and saw this...
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the incredible poverty
in these Mexican border towns.
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Fifteen years later, I went back.
Not a damn thing had changed.
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Here's all these workers working
for all these American corporations,
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and you just go across the street
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and you found people
living in the same horrid conditions,
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the same poverty existing.
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And you had to ask,
"Well, who's benefiting from this?"
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Who benefited were
these American corporations.
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During the 1990s,
they became even more wealthy,
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they posted record profits-
larger record profits,
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and the people in Mexico
just continued to suffer.