Sweatshops and Child Labor

As if the economics of the issue weren't obvious enough, I have found it necessary to make the following video...

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[tafxkz]

ha ha ha this is awesome - the poor children are grateful to you for standing up for their rights, obviously capitalism is not to blame it is poor people who are to blame for being poor in the first place

you forgot to mention that the corporations that enjoy the fruits of cheap labor because the people are poor, paying them less just because they are poor

[whatsinthatbox]

what he says is true, by boycotting sweatshop products, privileged SWPL Anti-sweatshop activists are condemning little children to prostitution or death by starvation . Quote from wikipedia sweatshop article: "Rather, sweatshops offer an improvement over subsistence farming and other back-breaking tasks, or even prostitution, trash picking, or starvation by unemployment."

[evilsabah101]

reading the comments, many poeple didn't understand him. I suggest they sit and rehear him several times to understand waht he is saying. What he is saying is true. And i think he put it in the best way for people to understand. All of these issues are all interelated. poverty is the root of child labor.

[senorfarqueso]

thats not what hes saying. obviously you didnt 'get' anything.

[SigmaLambda]

so you're saying that it's ok to screw people over, so long as they're already being screwed over, got it

[ElsieVamp]

I don't "conspire" with other people to brush my teeth in the morning either. But it's still something we all (well, most of us...) do.

You are very right about getting rid of sweatshops. And I'm not saying that they ought to be rid of. I just think that American factories should be held to the same standards no matter where they are in the world, and they won't give decent wages or humane working conditions unless they are forced to.

[Springtime916]

This is based upon the assumption that all of the different companies are all conspiring together, something i'm pretty confident you only assume to be true. It's like saying that all the different fast food chains that compete against one another, subway, quiznos, BK, Wendies, are all part of a 'food monopoly' because they all sell food

If you got rid of the sweatshops they would still be slaves; sustinence farm slaves where the conditions, pay, and prospects for the future are all worse off.

[StupidLyss]

What these companies do is NOT coercion? You said yourself that those kids couldn't survive without their jobs. It is the only real recource that they have. They don't have much of a choice. That sounds fairly close to a monopoly of jobs if you ask me, and these guys aren't going to dish out anything if they don't absolutely have to.

[Springtime916]

no company can 'keep' people poor except through coercion and violence. And no system can keep people dependent so long as negative liberties are respected. So your complaint hinges upon assumptions that imply the system is something OTHER than capitalistic.

[StupidLyss]

There are so many good things that could be done through capitalism, but instead of common people being able to take advantage of the system, the system is taking advantage of the people, children nonetheless.