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Originally posted by Elok
No, they're forced by evil circumstances. Works out about the same. Given the massive profits made by companies who employ sweatshop labor (they could afford to pay those workers at least ten times as much as they do, and still turn a profit), I don't see them as humanitarian. False. If the corporations had imposed on themselves an obligation to pay third world workers what you'd call a "decent" wage along with improving overall work conditions, then there woudn't have been an economic incentive to move the jobs overseas in the first place, as it would have been cheaper to continue on with the manufacturing infrastructure already existing in developed countries. Instead of the status quo where third world workers at least have a choice between subsistence farming and poorly paid manufacturing, they would have no choice at all. Does that sound more or less unfair to you?