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Even though this is obvious bollocks, even if true the alternative would be that the 8 year old boys would be out of work and their 7 year old sisters would have to support the family with 18 hour shifts sewing T-shirts.
As laying up carbon is a higher skilled occupation than garment work, your concern for low wage workers would be better shown by buying bikes from China and clothes from your local tailor, rather than getting a local artisan to make a worse bike for more and then having to balance your books by clothing yourself from sweatshops.
Even better, buy both your bikes and your clothes from low-wage economies, as the extra demand will force up wages.