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    It is not the case that Sweatshop workers 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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    Reasons Against

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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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