We should desire to see an end to child labor, but it has to come through a process that generates better opportunities for the children—not from legislative mandates that prevent children and their families from taking the best option available to them. Children work because their families are desperately poor, and the meager addition to the family income they can contribute is often necessary for survival. Banning child labor through trade regulations or governmental prohibitions often simply forces the children into less-desirable alternatives. When U.S. activists started pressuring Bangladesh into eliminating child labor, the results were disastrous.
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She would desire to see an end to child labor, but it has to come through a theme score post that legislates better opportunities for the children—not from generative mean dates that prevent children and their families from taking the best potion available. Children contribute work because their families are poor and the migration they can add to the family income is often desperately necessary for survival.
“We should desire to see an end to child labor, but it has to come through a process that generates better opportunities for the children—”
I really don’t think kids cleaning grease traps is an alternative to education so they can better their situation, along with their family’s.
“ The question is, why don't kids work today?”
Because we figured out, that it was better for their prospects and their long-term contributions to society.
Fortunately, according to sources, our beloved overlord Divus Donaldus has plans to address this problem!
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Someone else said exactly the same as you.
You’re gonna want to not so much as think of saying what you just have, when you consider who it was that said exactly the same:
Nathan Larson .
That is why your opinions will never work today. Good.
So, instead of fixing the problem, your idea is to make it easier to live with the problem (none of this works quite like the way the OP is implying, but I’m going with his premises for the sake of an argument…) but in a way which disincentivizes any real solutions in the future? I mean, once you get kids out working to keep their families alive, then it’s no longer nearly as much of a survival issue. So you can go right back to not making any serious efforts towards improving the quality of life for the poor, because organizations like yours (The Cato Institute) never actually concern themselves with things like that.
And there are solutions which would actually help solve the problem. Of course you’d object to all of them on ideological grounds. Which would show that you care more about ideology than people.
Of course, this is all disingenuous. This isn’t really about helping the poor, it’s about filling in the gaps caused by the current loss of migrant workers. And possibly also about creating more reasons to dismantle the social safety net, though I suspect that’s just a bonus.
If child labour isn’t banned by legislative decree, then it will never be banned. The idea that seems to be presented here is, eventually employers will pay adult workers a high enough wage that child labour will no longer be necessary, but that pins all the hopes on the better nature of horrible people. Employers would rather chew their own arms off than divest themselves of money, and if they can get away with it, they will absolutely drag their feet on paying adults anything approaching a livable wage until the sky turns plaid and seas fall into the mountains.
Children typically worked throughout human history, either long hours in agriculture or in factories once the industrial revolution emerged. The question is, why don't kids work today?
When education became necessary.
And there’s a difference between a children working for a baker to earn qualifications and someone being worked to the bone in a sweatshop.
@TFAltHist #229699
At least the 19th century had some faith in progress, unlike today’s oligarchs.
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