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by ReaganFJones 1996 days ago
If I was part of a developing nation then, yes, I would absolutely want those jobs. They tend to be the best jobs in the region and one of the key ways to advance your social class. There's a pretty strong amount of research backing up this position: https://www.nber.org/papers/w9669

It's one of the main reasons we've seen such a sharp reduction in poverty at basically every single monetary value you could measure it at https://imgur.com/a/qIB24jP.

What you appear to be characterizing as strictly bad worker exploitation is a key part of the best known way to reduce global poverty.

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The point is that this may be good for a developing nation, but it's not a solution you should want for a developed nation. The parent comment identifies lowering labor costs as a solution to develop US manufacturing.