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    Sweatshop workers are wrongfully exploited — Carmelics
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    Sweatshop workers are wrongfully exploited

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    • 1.Sweatshop workers' choices to accept employment are not truly voluntary
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    • 2.Workers' choices are not truly voluntary given the extremely low wages they receive
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    • 3.Workers who accept employment under conditions that are not truly voluntary are wrongfully exploited
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    • 1.Voluntariness exists on a spectrum; choices made under economic constraint are not categorically equivalent to choices made under coercion.
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    • 2.Nozick's entitlement theory holds that a transaction is just if it arises from legitimate prior holdings through voluntary exchange, regardless of baseline poverty.
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    • 3.Prohibiting sweatshop employment leaves workers with worse alternatives, making the 'wrongful exploitation' framing paternalistic rather than protective.
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    • 1.Matt Zwolinski argues that exploitation charges conflate making someone worse off with failing to make them as well off as possible.
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    • 2.A transaction can be mutually beneficial and morally permissible even when one party benefits far more than the other, as Wertheimer's baseline analysis demonstrates.
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    There has also been a robust debate about whether workers in sweatshops are paid too little. Some say ‘no’ (Powell & Zwolinski 2012; Zwolinski 2007). They say that sweatshops wages, while low by standards in developed countries, are not low by the standards of the countries in which the sweatshops are located. This explains why people choose to work in a sweatshop; it is the best offer they have. Efforts to increase artificially the wages of sweatshop workers, according to these writers, is
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