It’s easy for us Americans to amble over to Walmart or Target and get cheap stuff. We don’t mind paying a lot of money for clothes. It comes at a cost to us. But more importantly, it comes at a cost much more severe: children in sweatshops, people in economic slavery, abused women, and sometimes death. Here is an excellent post to this effect by Dan Wall:
Sweatshops and the Invisible Hand of Satan: A Few Thoughts on Some Not-So-Invisible Fires.