Nobody decides "hey I wanna become a slave". I would say the root of the problem is the lack of opportunity, not migration. Somehow, people rarely make an argument to stop all the rich people from migrating to orange county because they might overwhelm the infrastructure with the excess watering of their lawns.
>In order to raise the living standards of an entire area, you have to enforce issues like safe labor practice, minimum wage, vacation days, etc. Without heavy hand regulation in a developing countries, these things don't magically come at the kindness of employers. They must be forced.
And so I suppose there an no people working below minimum wage in a developed country like the US? Or maybe your solution of more regulation only works some of the time, and only in some cases, and is not a "must have" as you put it.
>but I'm glad Shanghai at least understands this is a problem instead of copying other Asian cities that have failed at this
How is what China is doing beneficial in any way?
"Ewww! Poor people! Slums! Ugh! They come here and mess up our urban real estate. Such an eye sore! Can we just get rid of them?"
>In order to raise the living standards of an entire area, you have to enforce issues like safe labor practice, minimum wage, vacation days, etc. Without heavy hand regulation in a developing countries, these things don't magically come at the kindness of employers. They must be forced.
And so I suppose there an no people working below minimum wage in a developed country like the US? Or maybe your solution of more regulation only works some of the time, and only in some cases, and is not a "must have" as you put it.
>but I'm glad Shanghai at least understands this is a problem instead of copying other Asian cities that have failed at this
How is what China is doing beneficial in any way?
"Ewww! Poor people! Slums! Ugh! They come here and mess up our urban real estate. Such an eye sore! Can we just get rid of them?"