Keith Hudson wrote:
> Arthur,
>
> Have you not read the case studies by Oxfam and other charities who
> describe what happens when child labour -- for example in India and
> Pakistan -- is forced out of existence by well-meaning Westerners? Far
> worse fates follow for many of these children and teenagers, particularly
> the girls.
>
> It's their only way of picking themselves up by their bootstraps -- as
> indeed a generation or two did in England in the late 18th century. And
> South Korea did only 40 years ago (and now has higher average wages than
> England).
>
> If you stamp out child labour in Third world countries then not only do you
> artificially and temporarily protect home industries but you are preventing
> the former getting out of the gutter.
>
> I thought this particular type of debate was over and done with years ago.
> Can't we move on to much more relevant concerns today?
Now THAT's an interesting perspective -- let's all praise and support
child labor, coz it saves them from an even worse fate... Keith is the
new Marie Antoinette ("let them toil child labor").
So that's "their only way of picking themselves up by their bootstraps"
-- geez, I thought this particular type of debate was over and done with
centuries ago.
Can the point of human intellect and economic evolution REALLY be that
today's developing countries must repeat the horrors of 18th-century England?!
Guess what, if it wasn't for consumerist "status gadget" paleo-freaks and
greeeedy neocon shareholders, there wouldn't be any "need" for child labor
today in the first place! Instead, the developing countries could
"leap-frog" into a modern society where children can go to (public) school.
As well as leap-frogging to modern 120-280 mpg cars and solar energy
instead of 12-mpg SUVs and unfiltered coal power plants.
But alas, the Free Traitors don't want that to happen.
Chris
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