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Forget 'Fairtrade' – just give cash to the poorest, philosopher says - CSMonitor.com: ""People rightly recognize that sweatshops are absolutely horrific places to work, no one doubts that at all," said MacAskill, who teaches at the University of Oxford.
"But the alternatives are even worse. Things like scavenging from dumps, unemployment, prostitution, street hustling, or back breaking farm labor, often all those things are low pay as well as being horrific," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Historically, countries have got richer by selling cheap goods, putting more money in people's pockets and allowing them to escape poverty, he said, highlighting examples in East Asia such as South Korea and Taiwan."
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