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I always found it odd that Americans have no problem with child labor at home, so long as it’s confined to movies and entertainment. We even have special laws j

I always found it odd that Americans have no problem with child labor at home, so long as it’s confined to movies and entertainment. We even have special laws just to make it legal when every other form of child labor is outlawed. It’s absolutely not the same as a sweatshop, but hollywood has a long track record of ruining children’s lives for profit.

rrrrrrrrrrrryan 6y ago
It might be an unusually American take, but I do think child labor is a bit easier to justify when the child is compensated with a tremendous amount of money. (When compared to the sweatshops you mentioned). From my understanding, the "special laws" put hard caps on the amount of hours that a child can work in a week, and establishes a bunch of other protections like making sure they get adequate schooling, etc. In a film with a child in a lead role, the entire movie production schedule often revolves around this hard hours limit. Perhaps a larger tragedy is children working in family businesses. Poor, legal immigrant families often put their children to work at the family restaurant, and this is legal for any number of hours.
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ceilingcorner 6y ago
There are over three hundred million people the US. A sizable portion of them dislikes Hollywood.
- freeopinion 6y ago
  Yet, as a whole they will spend over $2 billion in a single weekend at cinemas.
Dirlewanger 6y ago
The mainstream corporate media machine doesn't cover it because they're complicit in it. You have shit like what happened to Cory Feldman on the View: that hag Barbara Walters saying "you're trying to ruin an entire industry!" when he tries to expose the horrors he and others went through.
notriddle 6y ago
Why did textile factories hire children? Because they could pay less. Why do movie studios hire children? Because the script calls for a child. Union regulations and price floors can be put in place to protect the child actor’s interests without completely defeating the purpose of hiring them in the first place. Even though child actors tend to be considerably more expensive than adults, they still get cast. I don’t think that would’ve happened in sweatshops.

rrrrrrrrrrrryan 6y ago

It might be an unusually American take, but I do think child labor is a bit easier to justify when the child is compensated with a tremendous amount of money. (When compared to the sweatshops you mentioned). From my understanding, the "special laws" put hard caps on the amount of hours that a child can work in a week, and establishes a bunch of other protections like making sure they get adequate schooling, etc. In a film with a child in a lead role, the entire movie production schedule often revolves around this hard hours limit. Perhaps a larger tragedy is children working in family businesses. Poor, legal immigrant families often put their children to work at the family restaurant, and this is legal for any number of hours.

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ceilingcorner 6y ago

There are over three hundred million people the US. A sizable portion of them dislikes Hollywood.

freeopinion 6y ago
Yet, as a whole they will spend over $2 billion in a single weekend at cinemas.

Dirlewanger 6y ago

The mainstream corporate media machine doesn't cover it because they're complicit in it. You have shit like what happened to Cory Feldman on the View: that hag Barbara Walters saying "you're trying to ruin an entire industry!" when he tries to expose the horrors he and others went through.

notriddle 6y ago

Why did textile factories hire children? Because they could pay less. Why do movie studios hire children? Because the script calls for a child. Union regulations and price floors can be put in place to protect the child actor’s interests without completely defeating the purpose of hiring them in the first place. Even though child actors tend to be considerably more expensive than adults, they still get cast. I don’t think that would’ve happened in sweatshops.