Always the larger systems...

Is an argument that girls who aren't working in sweatshops would be sold to prostitution actually a moral argument? Likewise, is a few more pennies per day are a better wage than other jobs in developing countries better than the other opportunities a reason to morally accept sweatshops? On a day to day level for the people abject to these issues, these arguments may very well hold true. I am not objecting to that nor am I comfortable or accepting of these circumstances for other humans and the implications they have for further humans and our environment. I realize that I will not know what is like to have no other opportunities other than working in a sweat shop and possibly gaining a higher status, especially as a woman, rather than working within some family business with a risk of being sold as a sex slave (not to claim that this is the case for everywhere around the world, but is, from what I have read, a plausible experience). However, as someone who is relatively privileged in this world, who reaps the benefits of this exploitation with the ability to sit in my bed writing about said exploitations, I cannot be on board with the arguments raised in that article. Once again, I realize that there are issues within the system and ways of helping people within said intuitions but I do not morally condone them when wealthy corporations in developed countries go on deepening wealth inequalities. This is because, as I have said, I do not accept most arguments that come from within our current system of colonization and capitalism. I don’t have the answers, and cannot speak for anyone else, because I can’t tell who else wants an iPhone (but maybe that’s something we want to democratically decide on as worth to create?)? However, just because it is difficult to imagine a system that works counter to the one we are in—one where prostitution or complete poverty are the only other viable opportunities to sweat shops and child labor—does not mean that the systems do not need to be themselves questioned and changed.