On Third-World Child Labor Being Uber-Cool As It Enriches The Plutocrats More Than If They Have To Underpay Third World Adults

What these progressives have to realize is that a) the alternative is not an all-expense-paid education at the Masters School in upscale Simsbury Connecticut where kids get private tutors, are ferried to and from school in limousines and eat caviar and foie gras for lunch every day, and b) what these youngsters would ultimately be doing if they weren't working in a factory would be stealing, hustling, fighting, scavenging, prostituting, going to school and learning skills that might result in a better job in adulthood, etc.

So, yeah, the next time that you want to boycott child labor, think about the plutocrats and how child labor enriches them even more than underpaying third world adults and having them work in dangerous and soul-sucking conditions that, if the machinery doesn't suck them in and result in a death/missing limb, or the building doesn't collapse on them... they commit suicide by leaping to their deaths.

Better to exploit children and suck out their souls so they don't grow up with any false hopes of getting good jobs and not ending up working in dangerous conditions where, if the machinery doesn't suck them in and result in a death/missing limb, or the building doesn't collapse on them... they commit suicide by leaping to their deaths.

Yes, child labor is "bad", but really not that bad, as I do think that SOME work is good for kids in that it teaches them responsibility, work-related skills, that life is hard and they will need to toil for 12+ hours a day for exceedingly low pay for the rest of their miserable lives for the benefit of the plutocrats.

Also remember that the harsh reality is that ALL societies go through these same evolutionary patterns and for us to try and meddle in it is pure arrogance and an all but guaranteed foray into making the matter worse, in that protecting these kids from exploitation will harm the plutocrats that we all love and wish to see grow even richer.

Byline: This surface thinking free commentary was authored by Willis "I Love Strawmen" Hart. Advocator of child labor. LLIN-182.