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Every year the Wall Street Journal and Heritage Foundation publish their annual "Index of Econonmic Freedom." This rates all the countries of the world based on how libertarian their economies are. The countries at the top of the list are the ones that have the highest per capita incomes - Hong Kong, Singapore, the United States, Ireland, England, Switzerland, etc.
Every country starts out poor, and every country starts out with sweatshops. But the countries with economic liberty have enough economic growth that they eventually outgrow the sweatshop phase.
The only reason that a person works in a Nike sweatshop for 30 cents an hour is because that is the BEST job that he can get. If liberals boycott Nike, and the sweatshop closes, then his only option is to work somewhere else for even LOWER wages.
50 years ago, Hong Kong was a third world country. It had sweatshops everywhere. But the economy was free, taxes were low, there are very few government barriers to starting a business, and trade was free. In just a few decades, Hong Kong became one of the richest countries in the world.
Every country starts out poor. Every country starts out with sweatshops. When liberals try to close the sweatshops, they are trying to prevent people from getting on the economic ladder that will make them upwardly mobile.
The people in third world countries don't usually complain about sweatshops. On the contrary, they are grateful for sweatshops, because sweatshops give them a HIGHER wage than what they would otherwise have. The only people who usually complain about sweatshops are the stuck up, smug liberals who live in first world countries.
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