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Now, let's go over what you said. "Nope, but you will accelerate the growth significantly." Yes, you will accelerate their growth significantly, at the expense of our growth or the growth of others.
I am not selfish, I don't mind paying the insignificant amount for them not to be in wage-bondage.


If you force them to receive more money through higher wages then those paying for the goods will need to pay more of their wealth to get the product so they will have less wealth now. For a person so concerned about the well being of others you seem to forget that poor people rely on Wal-Marts cheap prices to maintain the bare minimum to survive in an advanced 1st world nation, and having Wal Mart raise prices because they have to pay more for labor isn't going to help them.
America has a minimum wage, so that point is rather null.

Yes, you are correct they will have more money. But you seem to think that these nations being exploited will take that money and put it to good use and not have corruption of any sort. That's flaw one of your idealistic view.
It is not a flaw. It is a separate issue. If the money went straight to the workers, the workers then decide what to do with it.

Secondly, there will still be competitive advantage but it will be lesser or weakened, which means that it is not as cheap then it was before.
The difference between the production of Starbucks Coffee and Starbucks Fair-Trade Coffee is 1 cent per cup. It will not break the bank.

You are basically artificially raising prices for all industrialized people so 3rd world countries can have more money which you seem to think will solve all their problems. Having a giant money funnel to poor countries has shown to be inefficient or not quite regulated enough to provide proper growth and development. Your proposal I will grant at least has the benefit of giving Americans cheap manufactured goods in return for sending off all their money, but just like how the US already dumps billions of dollars into Afghanistan with no viable returns on the countries well being I doubt that everything will turn out in tip top shape if we just make labor more expensive around the world.
There is also a difference between India and Afghanistan. Having your money basically pay for Indian products which you receive will be an obvious gain for their economy and yours as they could afford the more expensive American products like the IPhone more easily.

In Afghanistan, you are funnelling money in a sand-pit and you get no return from it.

Two completely different situations.

Doesn't this seem like a better thing to focus on than wages? Now who has no regard for humanity
Non-sequitur? Especially since I spoke out about the cruelty in the post I made the same statement about the wages.

Not like I conducted any hypocrisy by posting "Think of the Children!" while advocating de-facto Child Labour in the same post.