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Because clearly everyone deserves to live at whatever arbitrary standards the person complaining about "exploitation" thinks is correct. Nevermind the fact that if they weren't being "exploited" like this, they'd probably be illiterate subsistence farmers.

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Come on, these are trained artists, not "illiterate dirt farmers." There's a way to have the globalization discussion respectfully, but this is not it.

What he's saying is that if these artists didn't have a supply of income, they would not have studied art.

Withholding jobs from China because they are "too low" by Western standards simply further lowers their wages (due to artificial constriction of demand), hurts economic development, and discourages development of human capital (like artists) because foreign companies think it's too cheap to pay them.

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