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Nicholas explains in this essay that about how rough labor standards can be. He states the problem is that "it’s like a vision on hell" saying that the way life is being lived is not worth nothing, but something to some people. People are trying so desperately to survive off of very little. His purpose of this essay is to get the reader to identify how people are actually considering sweatshops as a job and a safe escape out of poverty. He appeals to pathos by saying " a woman hopes her 10 years old boy, scavenging beside her grows up to get a factory job, because she has seen other kids get ran over by garbage trucks". Basically saying that some people don't have a choice of a better life, a factory job is what they only see as a real future for their families. Nicholas states " sweatshops are only a symptom of poverty, not a cause" because it’s better than not just being productive at all, when at least you can have a low paying job with its diffic