Bryan Sant wrote: > The kids that do that for builders (at least the ones I've talked to) > make around $12/hr. That freakin' rocks. I would have LOVED the > opportunity to make that kind of money as a kid. Desperate times or > unmatched opportunity?
Oh wow. That's one of the most amazing assertions I have ever heard. That's certainly news to child miners in places such as Africa and Afghanistan. Certainly news to the millions of children that voluntarily work under the most horrid conditions because they have to, such as children in India and China that recycle *our* waste electronics and metals. But they want to destroy their health and abandon educational opportunities, obviously. A general comment on this thread: As for the right to a decadent lifestyle, sure we can enjoy the fruits of our labors, so long as they don't impact on the well-being and rights of others. And certainly our consumer lifestyles are *most definitely* effecting in a negative way the rights and well-being of people, including children, across the entire world. This is the problem, and I think Dave and others are alluding to it when they decry the state of the average American. Consider that your right to buy new toys and throw away your old toys, build huge houses, drive large luxury cars, does negative impact many, many people. In fact, high oil prices and their effects on developing nations and poverty across the world is entirely our fault (soon to be China's fault though). Why should we think that oil for us on our terms is some kind of inherent right? /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
