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Re:Apple supplier Foxconn to invest $1B in India, sources say by imtringued on Sunday July 12, 2020 @06:13PM (#23815209)
You're ignoring the reality that the alternative to having a bad job is not having a job at all. People work on their own farm and grow their own food. Nobody is forcing them off their farms. When they decide to work they do so voluntarily because nobody can take farming away from them.

You're not going to solve sweatshops by taking away people's agency. You get rid of them by providing viable alternatives.

Re:Apple supplier Foxconn to invest $1B in India, sources say by h0l0cube on Sunday July 19, 2020 @11:22PM (#23894395)
> People work on their own farm and grow their own food.

This seems to be ignoring reality. If you're born in a locality without options to grow your own food, or don't have a farm to inherit, these aren't actually options.

And actually, a lot of poor people have been forced off their lands, when lucrative commercial interests have swayed law-makers and bureaucrats. Property rights aren't quite the same in poorer countries.

> You're not going to solve sweatshops by taking away people's agency.

Obviously.

> You get rid of them by providing viable alternatives.

I'm not sure how this fantasy become reality without protectionist government intervention, or the whole world deciding they won't buy cheaper socks because they aren't certified fair trade. I'm pretty certain which one of those two is more likely though.