These imagined scenarios have very little to do with real life in the poor world. Living in the modern rich world it's hard to imagine, but the natural state f

These imagined scenarios have very little to do with real life in the poor world. Living in the modern rich world it's hard to imagine, but the natural state for humanity is being a dirt poor subsistence farmer. Only since the start of Industrialism 250 years ago have regular people been systematically getting wealthier. In the early industrialized world this path to wealth also started with sweatshops. They were awful, but less awful than the earlier life, life expectancy and wealth grew steadily decade by decade, science and industry prospered, and now we can talk about this on this technological miracle. No society has gotten industrialized without going through a sweatshop phase. It is now happening across Asia and Africa, and I think it's wonderful.