Note that I was answering to "Doesn't that make it a fair trade?". I can't argue that things are the way they are (including the equilibrium you are talking ab

Note that I was answering to "Doesn't that make it a fair trade?". I can't argue that things are the way they are (including the equilibrium you are talking about), but that's not I'm trying to do. "fair" is fairly subjective. Free market is not necessarily fair (and I don't think it is). That may be part of the reasons why workers are unionizing in the discussed article by the way.