Why so grim and negative, Tom? I can call you Tom, can't I? You really shouldn't sell these people short! Opportunities abound in the capitalistic New China. This man or members of his immediate family could also have one of those generous 60 cent an hour jobs working for a Wal*Mart sub-contractor to a Wal*Mart supplier! These wages are kept low intentionally so that people in the developed world whose wages have also dropped recently as a result of the globalization of production can have plastic garbage to throw away the instant it breaks or their child develops some abnormal condition from sucking on it! See how great capitalism is Tom, you need to stop being so parochial and start thinking globally!