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Well, on the one hand people don't care where their goods come from when they buy them (or more to the point, they don't care under which conditions they were manufactured). But then, on the other hand, they don't want to have the standard of living of the people working in those factories. Short-term self-interest tends to make people ignore that in the long-term this model is not sustainable.

Exorbitant pay for 3 hours of labor* is much less sustainable. The euro-per-hour workers will (and do) work their way up to better conditions, while their overpaid slothful competition will just get shut down.

(* - we may also presume those 3 hours do not constitute "hard" work.)

So just because some crazy US CEO states in a letter that French workers have a "3 hour workday" you suddenly believe that? This guy is crazy and I find it amusing that anybody takes anything he writes seriously.

"People don't care where their good come from"

I don't think this is entirely true. In fact, I think Americans have been caring more and more over the past few decades, especially about items made in Asia (and please don't mention Apple).