The only products of slavery we buy are made in the workers paradise of China. I don’t know the specifics of Triumph production in Thailand, but if it follows the typical pattern of a first world company setting up a fairly high tech facility in a third world country, the employees there are better paid than the national average. Industrial slavery pretty much died out with the death of Communism. If Thailand goes the way of many of it’s neighbors the industrialization taking place there will, in a generation or so, lead to vastly increased standards of living and economic freedom for the Thais. Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, India and a host of other countries are already at various stages on the path to modernization and increasing inclusion in the world economy. Fifty years ago they were all basket cases. Now many of them are major economic players and the rest are well on the way to becoming so. Capitalism is the engine of both national wealth and individual opportunity. Certainly Thailand is currently far from being a beacon of political freedom but the same was true of the entire Asian continent not that many years ago. John Bloor is getting richer by using the labor of the Thais, but they too are getting richer using the opportunities his investments make possible. To deny them those opportunities is to sentence many of them to subsistence farming and peonage. Is working in the Triumph plant the next thing to heaven? Probably not, but I’ll bet the employees there don’t have to sell their children as sex slaves to prevent them from starving.
