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Why would you insist that those workers who happen to be working in jobs associated with export be treated differently than those workers who don't? If a worker spends all day in a Nike factory, or if we succeed in getting that factory shut down for not complying with our ideals of safe operation and he goes back to work on the farm then it's tempting to say that their poverty in the first case was our fault but not in the second. But really, it's just as much our responsibility in the second case as in the first. If we really find their poverty intolerable we should do our best to fix that via foreign aid, rather than demand all the responsibility for dealing with situation fall on the only party which is already help, but giving the worker a job which is marginally better than was otherwise available.


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