  And yet the VAST majority of those near-starvation wages are FAR more than they would make without those jobs.  Assuming that these foreign companies are already there, buying the land, and changing the market to their favor. once you take away every option a person has to self-direct their own labor, then yes, working for 00 cents an hour is better than starving to death.  Also supporting social upheavals, toppling democratically elected governments for the benefit of corporations (The 0000 Guatemalan coup d'état), and putting economic policies in place solely designed to make massive profits and extremely cheap shit for Americans to buy and throw away  You can't pretend any single event or statistic happens in a vacuum. It's like tobacco companies selling nicotine patches - what nice guys helping people quit smoking! 