If a burn down your house and farm, and you end up working on a McDonalds or a sweatshop to make ends up, you'd do it too because it's "a better option than any other" for you.
Same if your parents took you there, because the state is rigged in favor of the rich guys, which have fucked over their prospects, pocket money that would go for development and infrastructure, sold national resources for cheap to foreign companies that bribed them, and so on.
What's the "better option" is not some neutral natural given state.
But people who haven't experienced those things, think all is well in the best of all possible worlds, and these sweatshop guys should be thankful for the greay opportunity.
(To add insult to injury, more often than not, those people live in the countries benefitting from both exploiting the sweatshop countries to underdevelopment, and from the resulting cheap sweatshop products).
These imagined scenarios have very little to do with real life in the poor world.
Living in the modern rich world it's hard to imagine, but the natural state for humanity is being a dirt poor subsistence farmer. Only since the start of Industrialism 250 years ago have regular people been systematically getting wealthier.
In the early industrialized world this path to wealth also started with sweatshops. They were awful, but less awful than the earlier life, life expectancy and wealth grew steadily decade by decade, science and industry prospered, and now we can talk about this on this technological miracle.
No society has gotten industrialized without going through a sweatshop phase. It is now happening across Asia and Africa, and I think it's wonderful.
