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Originally Posted by 4X4
Slightly off topic, but how is it much different from what us north american folk did just 50 or 100 years ago? Worked on farms slanging manure for 14 hours a day for mere pennies.
Sure it's pretty crappy work for us lucky ones that live in a developed country, but this country was built on the backs of people that endured those types of conditions.
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that was why i didn't condemn her though. is this normal in your view, is this just how it goes for poor people?
because yeah i agree it is pretty crappy compared to our jobs but aren't we (and by we i mean industrialized nations) all about human rights and stuff?
shouldn't it not matter if its the best job available? shouldn't we be trying to help them avoid this kind of thing? i thought this is why we had foreign aid right?
are we just conceding that we are going to take advantage of those less fortunate than us?