But While I'm Here...

I do feel the need to mention that I've just spent 50 of my hard-earned dollars on the purchase of a REAL Christmas tree (yes Dad, I know it's not Christmas eve yet, but my tree is up nonetheless). I could have bought a fake tree, which was better-proportioned, wouldn't have left a mess everywhere it was dragged, and could have been used for several years for a slightly lower price. I admit this purchase was my own choice, but I refuse to use a fake tree, and this is besides the point. What I fail to comprehend is how it is cheaper to hire a child from a foreign land to dig iron from the ground and twist it, along with plastics, into the shape of a tree, then ship this product halfway around the world to be sold in a store, then it is to hire an American/Canadian to walk into the woods, spend two minutes cutting down a tree, and then drag the tree to the side of the road to be sold. And yet somehow us Americans (yes, myself included) are all underpaid? Perhaps I'm still young & naive and I'll understand this with age.