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He would say, well no labor is cheaper in these conditions
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because the socially shared expectations for
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how well they have to be fed, clothed, and their children reared
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are low in those conditions.
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So Village India, the cost of labor power is
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vastly less then it is in Midtown Manhattan;
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that's one issue.
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Another issue, this is the age curve,
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and it's just an embellishment of the demography.
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Another is how hard people work;
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this is a Breugel sixteenth century picture of agricultural labor,
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which by the evidence there is not very intense.