I don't think the GP is speaking to Kenyans wearing Indian-manufactured clothes -- I think that they're pointing out the hypocrisy in Time readers (and its authors) who live in highly-developed countries, wearing clothing made by low-wage workers, who are just looking for any reason to criticize OpenAI, without applying that same criticism to themselves.

Ah yeah, the classic “in order to criticize a thing, you must first criticize and root out every possible worse thing.”

People have no way of knowing where the things they buy come from or how to source things ethically unless people write articles like this and push for higher standards when they see an opportunity.

It’s one thing to protect genuinely well-meaning people who can’t meet a purity standard, but OpenAI has a track record of dishonesty (starting with their name).

> People have no way of knowing where the things they buy come from

I don't know about other places and maybe I'm an outlier but I check everything for where it's produced / manufactured. Most if not all items in the US are required to have where the item was produced/manufactured. Some may say "Manufactured in the US with globally sourced material" makes it harder to pin down where each of the components originated from. Clothes and other items the country of origin is on the tag.

Sure, but if you’re trying to buy only goods that are produced in countries with good labor laws, you’ll starve.