Why you shouldn’t blame consumers for Labor Conditions?

Question

Hi, So I have a group project for my economic class and my teacher asked us to defend consumers for Labor Conditions and I really don’t have any idea how should I do this and for what reasons because when you search on the Internet you only get that consumers are those to blame for bad Labor Conditions.So any Ideas?

Answer 1

Well, consumers are almost always workers themselves. If wages are low, they can't afford to pay high prices for things. That might mean that they can only afford to buy the product if they are made in bad conditions by workers receiving low wages.