[chrischen]

The situation is much much simpler than you're making it. And as someone said, if you were part of a company that provided these jobs in a direct or indirect way, you'd see it much more clearly.

Basically there are people there that need to make a living wage to pay for food, medicine, education, etc. The reality is without the $X/hr jobs they have no other options or worse options.

An external actor like you, me, or a business can sit around talking about how shit it is, or go in and offer something at least slightly better. You're basically trashing the people who decide to take any action at all (giving them a low paying job). If the action isn't taken, they go back to their worse option. From your perspective you are failing to empathize with the Chinese because you don't see their other crappier options or can't imagine that they could possibly have crappier options.