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    It is not the case that Sweatshop employment relationships are not morally worse than their absence

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    • 1.Consent under conditions of severe economic desperation fails to satisfy the baseline conditions for morally valid consent (Wertheimer, 'Exploitation').
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    • 2.When the choice set itself is unjustly constrained, selecting the least-bad option within it does not render that option morally unproblematic.
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    • 3.The principle of nonworseness applies only when the baseline of comparison is itself just, not when it reflects prior structural injustice.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Mutual benefit is consistent with exploitative relations when one party captures gains far exceeding their proportional contribution (Sample, 'Exploitation').
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    • 2.An interaction that is exploitative in its distribution of benefits can be morally worse than its absence even if both parties prefer it to no interaction.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Sweatshop employment is consensual between employer and worker
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    • 2.Sweatshop employment is mutually beneficial to employer and worker
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    • 3.A consensual, mutually beneficial interaction cannot be worse than the absence of that interaction (principle of nonworseness)
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