> Allow me to repeat: Children are not freely consenting adults, which is why they get special legal protection. You avoided the question about why businesses

> Allow me to repeat: Children are not freely consenting adults, which is why they get special legal protection. You avoided the question about why businesses were fine using child labor before the laws. Your claim seems to be that businesses are nice and negotiate fairly. Why is the special legal protection needed if businesses are nice? You also failed to explain how you as an individual would negotiate a better healthcare package with Amazon than what is offered now. > And yet Starbucks and Amazon have had generous health care benefits without unions. Allow me to repeat: unions negotiated that in the 1950s and now everyone benefits. Without what already happened in the 1950s you can't claim those benefits would somehow magically appear. And Amazon and Starbucks don't exactly have "generous" healthcare benefits. They have average benefits compared to other US companies. And that aren't nearly as good as what folks in the EU get.