Indeed, part of international investors’ attraction to countries like Vietnam and China is not simply that wages are low, but that the absence of democratic rights promises to lock in cheap labor for years to come. For example, when China revised its labor law in 2008, Apple, Hewlett-Packard, and other members of the US-China Business Council lobbied successfully to limit the expansion of Chinese workers’ rights.
事实上，国际投资者被越南和中国等国家吸引的部分原因并不是工资低，而是民主权利的缺失保证了劳动力廉价的状态可以维持多年。比如，2008年中国修改劳动法后，苹果、惠普和其他中美贸易委员会（US-China Business Council）成员成功地游说限制了中国劳工权利的扩大。