When I was a kid, I worked quite a bit. Some of it manual labor, like elementary school hauling stuff around someone else’s farm. My employer was nice, my paren

When I was a kid, I worked quite a bit. Some of it manual labor, like elementary school hauling stuff around someone else’s farm. My employer was nice, my parents took care of me and I worked maybe 10-15 hours a week, tops. I think the issue is how to systematically scale this for a nation or world. Not everyone is as lucky as I was and I’ve seen and worked against many situations where kids are exploited. Either by loved ones or by a system that is just really hard and every dollar counts. I think rich kids would be ok, but poor kids would be worse off. Labor can be exploited when labor are all adults, imagine the power imbalance between a 12 year old and a line manager. Of course, we could try to have checks and balances, but I don’t expect that’s possible.