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Food — enjoying foodstuffs grown in less developed places with lower wages, driving up prices of food and farmland in those places.

Cheap electronics — enjoying access to devices assembled in places with less worker rights, creating pressure to keep workforce prices down, thus limiting the access of said workforce to gadgets you yourself enjoy.

Crude oil and cars. Quality fabrics. And so on.



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