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That's a very good point, but let's also not forget that at the time she didn't know any better and expected working for 2 dollars a day at a sweat shop to be normal (viz the slaves in Mauretania mentioned here on HN yesterday who couldn't conceive of there being anything wrong or unusual about their being enslaved).

She works as a management consultant in IT in Singapore, last time I checked...

If it was so great, why was she in Australia?

First, she didn't say it was great. Second, there's probably some selection bias at play here since there aren't that many HNers in developing countries.

She didn't say it was great, but she didn't complain either. She was in university in Australia.

Same experience here. I live a few blocks away from the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen and I almost get laughed at when questioning the well being of Foxconn employees. They are apparently doing just fine.