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2. The phenomenon of "child labor" has been alleviated, throughout economic history, through improved standards of living....capitalism.
As a family's income increases, they no longer allow their children to work.
HA! That's a good one, it's laws that have stopped child labor, and it still occurs in other nations that Wal Mart buys its products from.
Fascinating.
Unexperienced as I am in this area, I've never understood folks who have no knowledge.....absolutely none.....i.e., you.....yet feel perfectly copacetic making pronouncements.
You, expert in this area....might be the one to enlighten me: what is the impetus you feel that forces you to make an idiot of yourself?
Pray tell?
Could it be your worship of government?
It is suggested here: ".... it's laws that have stopped child labor,..."
Oh....and by the way.....I'm right again:
"Child labor, despite what you might have heard, was not created by capitalism. Its a practice that stretches back to pre-history, when children would help in hunting and gathering as soon as they were able to walk.
Why were most children made to work before the 20th century? Is it because parents were sadistic and governments cruel? Hardly. Its because, before capitalism made us rich, children had to work if they were to survive at all. When a family lives on the equivalent of a dollar a day, there is no alternative: if you can work, you workor you starve.
What eliminates child labor is not government decree but a rising standard of living. Thats what eliminated it in the West during the 19th century and that is what is eliminating it today in places like China. As parents grow richer, one of the first things they do is use their burgeoning incomes to send their children to school."
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