Yes, sometimes the only way they can avoid starvation is by working in a sweatshop. I think Sowell made this observation about child labor in third world countries. If the child has no opportunity to work for the intermediate good, money, he cannot buy the food to maintain life. So, by denying child labor are we inadvertently killing children?

Rothbardian_fanatic

econ

The Strange Moral Relativism of "Free Trade"

Undisciplined

> I can choose to not buy CCP subsidized products

The interesting question is whether that is even helping the person you're concerned about. When we defend "sweat shops", the argument is generally that the workers in those facilities chose to work there because it was their best option.

I think it's Sowell who had the great line about how you don't help the poor by taking away their options.