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Almost all of there rare-earth mining operations are run with deplorable labor conditions. A working certification scheme would raise prices all across. That in
by matt4077 11y ago
Almost all of there rare-earth mining operations are run with deplorable labor conditions. A working certification scheme would raise prices all across. That income could be used to pay adults a fair wage. With which they can feed their children.
Meanwhile, the children have the time to go to school. Improved education has an effect on the local economy after less than 10 years.
- golergka 11y agoThis sounds like a great, correct solution. But as far as I understand, typically it doesn't go this way: companies that are accused of using (directly or indirectly) child labour just move their supply chain elsewhere, and former child workers are left unemployed, unpaid and unfed. Or am I mistaken about how it usually goes?
- TeMPOraL 11y agoIANAE, but the end result you mention seems implausible. Do people really don't have anything else to do than to slave their lives away for the West? Again, IANAE, but it feels like if those companies moved elsewhere, people would be free to improve their conditions locally. They'd have to focus on the basics - growing food, treating water, building infrastructure - but they wouldn't go hungry. Disconnected from the global market, prices should adjust to a sensible level. It seems to me that places like DRC are too weak to participate in the global economy - and some level of isolation would be helpful at this point. They could use it to grow and stabilize - something that's now prevented because the tether to global economy is bleeding them dry (both figuratively and literally).