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Social Ethical Analysis:
When a dress costs $100 yet the workers only receive $6 (one sixtieth of the profit), its difficult to justify why they risk their lives everyday. The unfortunate truth is that there are no other choices- either they work or they starve. With so little opportunities to succeed, these foreign workers are forced into labor contracts, an agreement to work under the terms of their employers. For factory supervisors, it gives them a reason to use violence or wage-cuts to suppress any attempts to revolt. It strips them of their dignity and human rights to live freely. Under Rawls' veil of ignorance, no single person, regardless of wealth or social standing, should suffer such injustices. Moreover, his second Principle of Justice states that the disadvantaged should not be in a worse position than they already had been in. Constant and excessive abuse is in no way a better life for them.
To them, the employees are like assembly machines - easily replacable, as there is no shortage of unemployed. Dehumanizing them by using them as if they were tools is a cruel injustice. Immanuel Kant’s second categorical imperative applies here, stating that no human being should be treated as means to an end.