Note: This is an honest question. I also come from a place where skilled-workers make around $4 or $5/day. I think in many cases, $4/day is better than 0.
The fact is that globalization fixes countries as "slave countries." It's very easy to control people by giving them a locally beneficial option. Which sounds better to you:
Make $1/day working 16 hours per day - spend the rest of your time sleeping/taking care of yourself/family.
Making $0/day refusing to work - spend your day working on building up your community in creative ways, but suffer much higher probability of personal/family death.
The option that 99.9% of people will take is #1. However, real change can't occur if everyone takes #1, so we have stasis.
If the options that exists are $1/day vs. privation vs. criminality vs. selling sex services, most people would choose a $1/day.
I mean, look at all the creative endeavours the good people of Somalia ventured upon release from the hands of the Evil Government and Lobbies.
You are a perfect example of a person that would pave his road to hell with good intentions. All due to failure to see humans as we really are, and our time and again honoured tradition of refusing to do what "should" be done.