First world people complaining about "sweatshops" are living in a fantasy land.

They completely ignore that these people are voluntarily choosing to work in those conditions because it pays many times more than the substinence farming they were doing before.

These people argue that they don't actually have a choice, that they are a slave to the wages, when that's not true at all. They are a slave to life, all of us are and there is absolutely no getting around it. A person must work to either produce the resources they need to survive or produce other resources so that they may trade for the resources they need to survive.

These workers are making the very intelligent choice of increasing their income manyfold so that their family can live in much better conditions than before; so that their kids can instead be educated rather than work in the field. They accept these "sweatshop" conditions because often to them, it's actually much easier than the extreme back breaking labor of manual farming, for much more pay.

Not to mention, with free market competition, these conditions will improve as more companies will compete for the workers in ways other than pay. Even still as pay improves with competition, retraining costs begin to really rise, and safety becomes a concern to the company if not just to save on those costs.

In two decades average wage for SouthEast Asian countries has gone from pennies a day to $2-3 an hour. These people are living like kings compared to a single generation ago. Poverty has never been lower in those countries, death rates hav never been lower. How can someone ever call that a bad thing? Just because it's not as good as first world conditions? This first world infrastructure people take for granted takes a lot of time and resources to build up, you can't just complain about it until it happens. The wealth of the US, infrastructure, human capital, and all, amounts to about $150 trillion or about $500,000 per capita, that's a lot of resources. There must be investment and for investment there must be a reason to invest. This process cannot happen instantly, there is simply not enough resources being produced anually to afford that. It must be done gradually with assistance and learning from the people who live there as they produce more and more resources themselves.

But what do I know, I'm just a selfish capitalist who doesn't care about the poor at all.