[Sundae]

Bangladeshis.

The workers will do whatever they can to get by and feed their families.
They live in a country where dying in a ditch is a reality, not a political warning against welfare. Or by the side of the road, or in slums where a doctor never comes.

Capitalism doesn't work when the purchasers come from a country where safe drinking water is a given, but they employ workers in a country where 100,000 children die a year from diarrhea. Isn't the American ideal to work yourself out of poverty? All fine and good. But try starting in a country where the average family lives on $1 a day and see if exploitation still feels like reaching for the brass ring.

And no, this is not anti-American. It's anti all Western companies that use child labour, illegal working environments and poor conditions to turn over huge profits. Make them sit up and take notice. If they agree across the board then these execrables won't exist.

The Chinese cannot flood the market with cheap imports unless they are bought. You buy cheap you sell cheap - opposite of designer branding, surely.