Economic rationalism and the world's "best practice"

Jobs need to be kept in continual short supply so that desperate workers will embrace them. They will embody the "world's best practice" in productivity which can only be sustained by the worlds worst practices in pay and conditions.
A company makes cheaper running shoes than we do by the innovative use of child labour. The initiative is plainly good because it creates jobs and leads to the best product at the best price. This is economic rationalism unfettered by culture. Anyone opposed to this must put forward a powerful case for putting these poor children back on the street - poverty stricken, and for making us accept higher priced shoes !
If a company wants to remain open every hour of the week. The initiative is plainly good because it creates jobs and leads to the best service. Furthermore, because the company's market share increases (at the expense of other businesses who are open shorter hours) they can offer the best prices. Anyone opposed to this initiative must put forward a powerful case for the quality of service provided by small businesses open shorter hours.

Without a strong commitment to cultural rather than economic values, both these cases will be lost. Economic rationalism is fundamentally anti-culture. Culture places irrational constraints on the market. The intellectual commitment to culture is worn down with naive praise for a vague notion of "internationalism". It can also be directly attacked by renaming it as "nationalism" (nationalism is just cultural commitment that is linked to the place where the people live).
The practical commitment to culture is worn down simply by marketing any products globally. Fashion is the surface of culture. If you continually grind off any local allegiances with products from all over the globe you will weaken culture - thus weakening another constraint on free enterprise.

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