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    It is not the case that Firms operating sweatshops can and should do more for sweatshop workers

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    • 1.Voluntary exchange between consenting parties is presumptively just when it improves the position of both parties relative to their alternatives.
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    • 2.Sweatshop wages, however low by global standards, typically exceed available local alternatives, making workers genuinely better off by their own assessment.
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    • 3.Imposing additional obligations on firms beyond contractual terms paternalistically overrides workers' expressed preferences and rational agency.
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    • 1.Nozick's entitlement theory holds that holdings are just if they arise from voluntary transfers, regardless of the pattern of distribution that results.
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    • 2.Demanding firms redistribute surplus to workers beyond agreed wages constitutes a forced transfer that violates the separateness of persons and property rights.
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    • 3.The relationship between employer and employee generates no special fairness obligations beyond those explicitly contracted, since no prior shared cooperative scheme exists.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Sweatshop owners and workers are engaged in a relationship that obligates the parties to meet certain standards of conduct
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    • 2.Exploitation falls below the standards of conduct required by that relationship
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    • 3.Grounds of fairness or beneficence impose additional obligations on firms toward workers
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