America has child labor laws, regular health inspections, and frequent but spontaneous visits by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, also known as OSHA, which closely monitors workstations. Running water and flushing toilets are conventional in every American home, as are refrigerators, store-bought products, and air conditioning; at least one car per house, cell phones, computers, television and privileged children who must attend school up to the age established by the state in which they reside. These are things that 21st century democratic America is accustomed to and is able to have as a result thanks to a rich economy and endless opportunities to earn a steady income, unlike foreign countries supported by sweatshops. While America is right that the conditions under which employees employed by these companies work are morally unacceptable, popular solutions often indicate how unethical treatment of employees would be addressed if the problem were in America, where opportunities are available safer and more equal incomes, excluding the exploitation of employees. found in inhuman conditions of sweatshops. Several reasons attribute to why sweatshops should be closed down. Children are placed in small, dangerous spaces, many of them are mangled, costing them fingers, arms, legs and other extremities. Employees are believed to be working exorbitant hours compared to the Westernized eight-hour workday, earning only cents a day compared to the American minimum wage of seven and twenty-five. These are reasonable terms to get angry with, areas with richer economies cannot undoubtedly understand returning to work in the previously described circumstances without first-hand experience and want a... middle of paper.... .. and States labor standards. If Americans were to impose a minimum wage and enforce current working conditions in factories in developing countries, then there would be no reason for companies and manufacturers to build there. The only answer is to let the country itself develop through the slow but steady incline of economic and environmental standards. But eliminating perks like sweatshops would force workers to return to poverty or rely on unpredictable subsistence farming. Outrageous as it may seem, far from being a bad thing, sweatshops are a necessary rung on the ladder of economic development and lift millions of people out of poverty. poverty in the still developing world. The current generation has a great impact on the lifestyles of others and with such responsibility breeds ignorance; People should educate themselves in every aspect before forming prejudices.