[nicoburns]

It seems to me that much like remote workers often get location-based pay which is lower than that for someone for doing the same work in a location like San Francisco or NYC, it's less that there is oversupply of t-shirt makers, and more that the pay rates of their local market are lower overall which puts them in a weaker bargaining position.

And when you start looking at why that is you get pretty awkward answers like: because of selectively enforced free market ideals where capital is free to move across borders but labour isn't. Which are ultimately backed up by military power.