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Well put Luqman.
For me the issue, as a Christian, is that I need to treat other people the way I would want to be treated in their situation. It is true that if my neighbour was starving and no one would offer him a job that I could improve his situation by paying him $1 per day to lick my floor clean. I could also improve the financial situations of prostitutes by buying the ability to exploit their bodies. Just because there is some perceived benefit doesn't mean I am treating that person in a loving and appropriate way. People in China and other places work long hours for peanuts in part because they don't have a lot of options. If someone went over there and offered them $5 an hour, I'm sure they would be happy to take those jobs. But then you and I couldn't own so much stuff so it isn't likely to happen, since the people with the power to make the change have selfish motivation for the change not to happen.
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