Quote Originally Posted by Marblehead View Post
That was back in the days when almost all stuff for purchase was locally made. Now much of it is made by women and children on the other side of the planet, in god awful conditions, who are virtual slaves to their masters. Globalization has certainly created more purchasing opportunities, but I try to find stuff that I'm pretty confident was made in Jamaica. Respect --Marblehead
This is what is known as "capitalism" - make your product as inexpensively as possible and sell your product for as much as the market allows. Personally, I have always been a believer in "enlightened capitalism" - I am glad to have met Bill Gates and seeing how he and his wife are benefiting the world through their philanthropy. My gut instinct is that Bill and Melinda have not even begun to reach the goal, that he told those of us at the Comdex suite years ago, to become the world's biggest philanthropist (prior to his marriage)!

Marblehead, thanks for backing up my assertion that the "High Times" article you mentioned was written at the same historical time that cocaine was hitting the island over 30 years ago. I wanted to clarify that you were speaking in an historical reference as opposed to anything to the current Jamaica.