>>The people making shoes, iPhones, TVs---they don't have to do that. They could do whatever they were doing before that factory came to town.
This isn't always true. There are situations where some big factory shows up, ruins the local economy(usually by wrecking the environment) and now the only way to make a living is to be part of the company... or move far away. Leaving your homeland of generations is technically a choice, but emotionally... not really.
Right, but it's generally true. Do we really need to point out that there can be exceptions? Of course there can be. There are probably even factories in China where people are literally slaves. Is it necessary to say "Of course there ar exceptions" every time I say something that could have exceptions? Because somebody is always going to come back and point out an exception, as if it invalidates the generalization.
> Leaving your homeland of generations is technically a choice, but emotionally... not really.
It's always, truly, a choice. People can make choices regardless of how difficult it is to do so. It's a matter of free will.
This isn't always true. There are situations where some big factory shows up, ruins the local economy(usually by wrecking the environment) and now the only way to make a living is to be part of the company... or move far away. Leaving your homeland of generations is technically a choice, but emotionally... not really.