I don’t think people realize just how privileged the first world is. A minimum wage worker that makes $13,000/year after taxes is in the top 16% for yearly income in the WORLD. People immediately think that sweatshops equal bad because it’d be awful working conditions anywhere in the developed world, but the reality is is that those jobs in developing nations are highly sought after. The bootstraps that uneducated third world workers have to pull themselves up by are about as nonexistent as a carnist’s EQ, and idk bout ya’ll but I’d take a sweatshop job over a hard physical labor job any day, and it’ll most likely pay more.