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Originally posted by Flame Of Liberty@Jan 9 2005, 02:52 PM
If the child is put into slavery/ forced prostitution that is not OK. I dont see where did you get that from - that I think child slavery is OK.
Minimum wages and safety regulations are just another tool of etatist regulations that have no place on free markets. You dont think your workplace is safe enough? Dont work there! But dont ban people who want to work there if they want to because they have no other choice! Who`s going to employ people whose productivity is lower than minimum wage? No one! These people will be UNEMPLOYED. How is that better than being able to work? Dont forget they want to work - you just dont let them because YOU think their conditions are not good enough. But for them, these conditions are the best they have.
Additionaly, capital growth, rise of the productivity and competition will force employers to increase workplace safety and wages. Neither of those 3 things take place in countries where captialism and globalization are fought against. In fact, you are fighting forces that could and will improve lives of people.
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Do you honestly think a 5 year old child chooses to work in some sweat shop? Where is reality here? The parents see a chance to make some cash off their kids, and PUT them into the factory. You seem to feel the kids aren't exploited because some corporation gives them a dollar a day to work 15 hours in poor conditions, just because without that dollar, the family would have less. How is it different from the same parent renting the kid to a tourist? It's a fast buck for the parents, that the kid doesn't want to earn.
Some day you may have a child, would you feel comfortable putting them in danger (lack of safety regulations), because they can make a few bucks? As far as the crap that these companies are improving standards in any of these countries, all they are improving is their bottom line, at the expense of the lives of the kids. Capital growth and a rise in production will line the corporations pockets, competition for workers will cause the corporation to move the factory to another country where the can exploit cheaper labour. This has happened with the move of factories from Canada to the USA, to Mexico, to Taiwan, and now to Bangladesh.
I'm sure a 6 year old kid, that has been kept out of any kind of school, forced into a textile sweatshop, to work 15 hours a day for a dollar, is seeing a grand improvement in his life. Maybe the family that loses their child in a factory accident feels enriched too. If we are all lucky, they will open up the coal/uranium mines again, and we can have our friends and family work long hours, for low wages. Bring back the environment where men worked 5-6 years so they could die of cancer, spending their cheques at the company store, hoping the money would at least put enough food on the table to feed the kids. As long as the company makes money, since they want to work there.
