• ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
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          6 months ago

          And it isn’t incentivizing parents to push their children to work at increasingly younger ages? Even at the expense of school, social life, and development? Especially the poorest families?

          You are reinventing the entire problem that created child labour to begin with.

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              6 months ago

              I know, but my point is that with it now being legal, poor families will now sell their kids out as young as they possibly can out of desperation to anyone who will pay to earn wages even the adults can’t get, and now you’ve just made child slavery a thing, and growing necessity, as real wages continue to decline