Go ahead and hire them at a good wage. Nobody is stopping you. The rest of will keep trying to survive in the real world.
If you think mass starvation in the third world for the unrealistic dream of turning a dump into a first world economy overnight is a good trade-off, then have at it.
People work those jobs because they are the best ones available in their country. Only someone who has so much compassion and love toward them would wish them all dead.
“”and to believe people should be paid a wage that means they can afford the necessities of life””
Then there is that mean, old, heartless thing called MATH that says if you raised their minimum wage in their country to the point where they can get their Beamers and Air Jordans, those jobs would vanish. Nobody is stopping you from opening your own factories and paying a substantially higher wage.
This is like saying that a burger flipper should be paid $50 an hour. What possible flight of fantasy would make a burger flipping job worth anywhere near $50? If you tried to force companies to pay more than the job is worth they will replace those people with robots.
A machine can easily make french fries and cook a meat patty and assemble a burger made to order. Plus, it won’t spit in your food for being a cracka.
Since when are “Air Jordans” and the rest of the crap you listed necessities of life? I also am sick of the excuse that slave labor and unsafe working conditions are justified because if we don’t tolerate it there will be no work at all.
I’m not writing about a mom and pop business which needs the children to pitch in to make a go of it. I’m not writing about using our cost of living and minimum wage as where the pay scale should be in the developing world.
I’m writing about multinational companies which sell their product in countries where people have been conned by ads into thinking a shirt with a swish logo must be worth $$$$ more than one without.
So just how would the whole economy of India collapse if these companies paid a wage that meant families no longer had to sell their children into slavery in order to provide food and shelter? Especially if adding a few dollars more to their product would cover the increase in wages and still be profitable?
Poverty in the developing world is not like it is over here.