system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Are sweatshop workers better off if their factories close down?

I assume people work for sweatshops (I'm talking about adults here) because they have no better option.  Would they be better off if the sweatshops closed down?  What else would they do for money?
gpt
If you're in a third world country, your other options might include:

* Farm work: You vs. the elements, back breaking work
* Mining: Sometimes in dangerous, unregulated, illegal conditions
* Waste management: Possibly dealing with dangerous waste from first-world nations such as electronics which can contain highly toxic substances
* Prostitution: STDs, possible abuse, elevated chance of being targeted for severe crime such as murder
* Crime: Well, it's illegal

Sweatshops are terrible but that's coming from a first world perspective. Many in third world countries wouldn't be able to get by that well without them.

You'd rather work in a sweatshop than in the other dangerous, even worse work conditions you could be in.