By the Civil War era, there were suppliers of cotton in Africa and South-East Asia that were cheaper and more reliable than the Confederate states. Hint: they

By the Civil War era, there were suppliers of cotton in Africa and South-East Asia that were cheaper and more reliable than the Confederate states. Hint: they didn't treat their workers much better than plantation owners treated slaves. The point here isn't who is good and who is evil, I'm purposefully avoiding that. The point is that it's not possible to both have $1,000 laptops and decent wages for workers. I find it very reasonable that one would say that no, it's not acceptable to treat workers like that, and if that means we can't have laptops, we'll do without. I don't find it reasonable to claim you can have both.