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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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CMV: Buying clothes or goods from factories in the developing world is moral, even if safety standards and wages are low.

There are many factories in the developing world - clothing in particular springs to mind - where safety standards are poor are wages are low. But as a consumer, if I only buy from, say, Western manufacturers where standards are higher, then the people in developing countries won't have jobs, and that could mean they never have a chance to earn any money and improve their situation.

Is it better to buy these clothes that are manufactured in, say, Bangladesh, while pushing for change from the company at a global level, to increase those standards? Admittedly not much, but some, of that money I spend goes to the people on the ground.
gpt
This feels like a misrepresentation of the attitude you oppose. Presumably people don’t say “don’t support developing countries” they say “don’t support companies that make clothes in sweatshops.” Those are very different propositions. The people who you shouldn’t support are the *primarily international companies* that are exploiting poor people and underdeveloped countries.

The way you present it makes it seem like the only way to support underdeveloped countries is to buy clothes produced in sweatshops. But that’s not remotely true.