Comment 13 for bug 618595

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From: Bug 618595 [mailto:<email address hidden>]
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2017 6:19 AM
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In high school, I was hanging out with a teacher after school (I was that kind of nerd) and he started telling me about his lesson plan for the following day. It was going to be about how we all need to boycott companies that use child labor and shut down sweatshops that employ children. That was his entire argument, that they need to have the doors shut and send those kids home. Not increasing regulations, educational incentives, wage increases, lessening cheap labor demands, international intervention, etc.

I brought up the following: If they take away the small amount of income that child laborers are earning, won't that make starvation and malnutrition even worse? Wouldn't less scrupulous sweat shops just take on the ones that were laid off? What about parents that sell children into the sex slave industry if they're out of alternatives? If they aren't going to work, and there is no school system in place or their society doesn't allow certain children to attend school, couldn't that lead to an increase in crime rates, pregnancy, illiteracy, etc?

It was just playing devils advocate, but the next day he was taking about all the things I mentioned, and he had printed out articles for students which indicated to me that he had gone home and researched the issue. I thought that was pretty cool.

I am in no way saying that I endorse child labor, just that if you eliminated child labor tomorrow there could be a lot of negative repercussions due to the vacuum that would be left, and these issues need to be thought out carefully.

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