Western civilization has been addicted to cheap labor since the very beginning. From the Spartan slave state to the modern outsourcing of labor to people who get paid near slavery wages, or just old-fashioned slavery in some cases, even today. Humans are the root of the problem. It’s not a system or idea that’s the root cause, it’s us.
I have a local group that’s constantly filled with questions like this and I swear it’s just people wanting attention. Most of them know how to use a search engine.