I agree workers have incomplete information, but it is unclear to me why they would systematically overestimate the value of jobs. If it is possible for foreign consumers to know that products from a given company or country were produced chaining workers to machines, I would expect the workers to also know about it given they have a much greater incentive to figure out their working conditions, as they directly reflect on their quality of life. My argument does assume workers freely take up jobs. The assumption that workers can freely leave their jobs is not strictly necessary, but it does help. In general, the greater the freedom of the workers to take up and leave jobs, the greater the transparency about the working conditions, and the greater the decision capacity of workers (adults have more than children), the stronger the case for assuming that taking the jobs was for the best, which I think is in agreement with what you are saying.
I agree workers have incomplete information, but it is unclear to me why they would systematically overestimate the value of jobs. If it is possible for foreign consumers to know that products from a given company or country were produced chaining workers to machines, I would expect the workers to also know about it given they have a much greater incentive to figure out their working conditions, as they directly reflect on their quality of life. My argument does assume workers freely take up jobs. The assumption that workers can freely leave their jobs is not strictly necessary, but it does help. In general, the greater the freedom of the workers to take up and leave jobs, the greater the transparency about the working conditions, and the greater the decision capacity of workers (adults have more than children), the stronger the case for assuming that taking the jobs was for the best, which I think is in agreement with what you are saying.