Tuesday, August 25, 2015
On Child Labor in the Third World
What these progressives have to realize is that a) the alternative is not an all-expense-paid education at the Masters School in upscale Simsbury Connecticut and b) what these youngsters would ultimately be doing if they weren't working in a factory would be stealing, hustling, fighting, scavenging, prostituting, etc. (so, yeah, the next time that you want to boycott child labor......). Yes, child labor is bad (though I do think that SOME work is good for kids in that it teaches them responsibility, work-related skills, etc.) but the harsh reality is that ALL societies go through these same evolutionary patterns and for us to try and meddle in it is pure arrogance and an all but guaranteed foray into making the matter worse (a reference to the UNICEF study of 1997 and simple common sense - http://oneminute.rationalmind.net/sweatshops/).
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I think you might be going it alone on this one...
Please, check out Ben Powell. He might convince you better than I could. That and the UNICEF study.
I'm going to have to stick with the matter of my defense of consenting adults being able to enter into labor agreements.
800,000 child prostitutes in Thailand (to name just one child labor example) might have something different to say than you on such matters.
You're kind of making my point, bra; that these 800,000 children (not to mention their families) would be far better off working in a factory than scavenging, stealing, fighting, hustling, and, yes, prostituting.............It's kind of like what the Feds did in Samoa; raising the minimum wage to a level unsustainable to the productivity of the island and the end result was far MORE poverty.............One of the best lessons that I've learned from Thomas Sowell is to always query; compared to what?
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