I find the author's point to be a very disturbing one: If we really pay people fairly, I won't be able to afford all these cheap consumer goods any more. The "

I find the author's point to be a very disturbing one: If we really pay people fairly, I won't be able to afford all these cheap consumer goods any more. The "idea" of location based pay for developers is that you an have the same standard of living in Boise on less salary than in London. Whether this is true or not is subject to debate. But what's not subject to debate is that, as you say, Bangladeshi garment workers do not have a standard of living that is okay. What do we do with the fact that our (in the USA or UK) cheap clothing comes at that "price"?