Pretty messed up that child labor is making a comeback in the US

I guess it’s not surprising given decades of attacks on workers’ rights, but I thought that with all the “protect the children” rhetoric, there wouldn’t be so much support for allowing 14-year-olds to work in factories or long hours. Of course that was empty rhetoric and only applies to wedge issues like book bans and keeping school bathrooms policed. A few headlines about “labor shortages” and it’s time for red states to start letting more and younger children work. These laws are mainly to protect immigrant children working in the fields and factories. It won’t be affluent white suburban kids doing this work. This is not about your after school gig.

The declining rate of profit and its consequences…

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YourMomsSecretCrush · M

anybody wearing Nikes or using a smart phone shouldnt have a problem with child labor. but, then, they turn a blind eye when it goes on somewhere else.

Gloomy · F

@YourMomsSecretCrush True but since western markets are flooded with these products all we can do is raise awareness and demand change since in the end there is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

YourMomsSecretCrush · M

@Gloomy are the corporations to blame, the country in which the products are made, or the consumers or all of them ??

SW-User

@YourMomsSecretCrush I would say all, but of those, the corporations have the most control.

Gloomy · F

@YourMomsSecretCrush Corporations carry the biggest blame, then the countries and then the consumer since it is very expensive to consume fairtrade or locally made products.

bijouxbroussard · F

@YourMomsSecretCrush I can’t vote to stop it in any other countries. And if the U.S. is still bragging about leading the world in human rights, how can they justify doing what those other countries do ?