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    Prohibiting sweatshop employment leaves workers with wors... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Sweatshop workers are wrongfully exploited

    Prohibiting sweatshop employment leaves workers with worse alternatives, making the 'wrongful exploitation' framing paternalistic rather than protective.

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    • 1.Workers voluntarily choose sweatshop jobs over available alternatives, revealing those jobs maximize their welfare given their constraints.
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    • 2.Prohibition eliminates opportunities entirely rather than improving them, pushing workers into unemployment, subsistence farming, or illegal work.
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    • 3.Outsiders judging working conditions as unacceptable denies workers agency to define their own acceptable terms given their circumstances.
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    • 1.Extreme poverty doesn't constitute genuine consent; coerced choice under survival desperation differs morally from voluntary agreement.
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    • 2.Prohibition paired with investment in alternatives (education, infrastructure, enforcement) improves conditions rather than eliminating jobs.
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    • 3.Respecting worker agency includes supporting standards that protect them from severe exploitation, not treating all choices as equally valid.
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