'and I'm happy to make money off the jokes about/normalize the little girl that has to work in a sweet shop in a tropical climate doing it for basically nothing'.

Current American culture can be pretty ugly.

Unless you believe that rich countries should altruistically give resources to poor countries, this is the best we can do. If there were no cost advantages to manufacturing in poor countries, they would have been entirely left out of the global economic sphere and unable to trade anything for industrial machines and technology.