> The people working there are free agents. Why would they choose to work for a sweatshop if it makes them worse off > The workers typically have [only] worse

> The people working there are free agents. Why would they choose to work for a sweatshop if it makes them worse off > The workers typically have [only] worse alternatives Well, why would anyone write nonsense, if it makes them worse off? And yet there you go. Edit: >If people don't need the money, and have some better alternative, then what's stopping them from doing that instead? The sweatshop owner, their customers, the government, the economy all have an incentive. The people might be part of any of those, granted, but less likely in poor conditions.