People supporting this have a similar mentality to Arabian Gulf countries that treat laborers poorly: “we pay you so that makes us generous, shut up”. Of course, this behavior is unacceptable and needs to be condemned. Imo Using people’s conditions in poverty as a way to severely exploit them is like pimping out a starving child and wanting credit for sharing some of the earnings. There is nobody to protect the child and he’s desperate, but that doesn’t make the pimp correct.
You're using the exact same logic as those that were using child labour for coal mining in the 1800s.
They're being specifically exploited because that is what the company set out to do. You could argue any number of benefits as a smokescreen but the reality is that they hired people in Kenya because they knew they could exploit them. Everything else is post-hoc rationalization.
