glammananna said, based on good authority, that the growers earned "pennies for each pineapple". I accept that what seems like a paltry sum here may go a lot further somewhere else but in this particular instance "pennies" doesn't sound like much, particularly when they are sold at a much higher (subsidised/loss leader) price here.
I don't think teaching, although skilled and very necessary, can be compared with long gruelling hours of hard manual work in probably very difficult conditions.
People always use the argument that if we didn't import cheap goods from these countries their economies would suffer greatly but if we are really concerned about those countries, the people producing the goods should be paid properly.
Unfortunately greedy multi-nationals control our world economy and exploit when and where they can - whether it be minimum wage workers in the UK or poor farmers abroad.