This is the beginning of an argument that ends in “US workers aren’t exploited—all of them are better off than nearly any worker in Sierra Leone!” You can alwa

This is the beginning of an argument that ends in “US workers aren’t exploited—all of them are better off than nearly any worker in Sierra Leone!” You can always (in a country like the US) find a group somewhere so much worse off that you can use them to paint US workers as greedy or spoiled. The connection of these facts to exploitation is tenuous in this context, but it does make for good rhetoric.