^ You need to learn that there's a massive difference between being inadequately paid and being a slave.

[quote=Dervish]
Pretty much. This is why equal trade agreements and the like are great things, because just because a country has something we want/ need doesn't mean they should be exploited for it, and likewise, we have a lot of stuff that their countries need. Doing things for mutual benefit only helps everyone in the long run, or at least is the right thing to do. Honestly, it would be nice knowing that the shoes I bought were made by someone who works, is compensated, and lives in comparable conditions to someone doing the same kind of work as over here instead of in some unsanitary, borderline dangerous sweatshop earning jackshit a day for backbreaking labour.
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The restrictions on trade that are entailed in non-free trade agreements are what facilitate unequal trade relationships. Ideally, every state would be engaged in a free trade relationship with every other.