Maybe. But singling them out while happily consuming products produced under similar, or worse, conditions reeks hippocracy. It is fully in our power to force c

Maybe. But singling them out while happily consuming products produced under similar, or worse, conditions reeks hippocracy. It is fully in our power to force companies to source manufacturing to places where you have more than one day off in a year, or are paid in more than lodging and rice, but we don't like to talk about this, although that is actually within our power to change. Why is this? And, preemptively, this is not 'whataboutism'. As I said, our own consumption patterns are in our hands to change (arguably this includes enabling these gulf states with our tourism dollars but that's another point). But we hear a lot of whining about this 'slavery', however accurate that may be, but hardly any discussion about the outsourced manufacturing processes that we wholly depend on, which almost certainly fit the bill as much as anything.