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Because why not to demand that all safety regulations including a ban on child labor are followed in agriculture, manufacturing before buying agricultural or ma
by _0w8t 4y ago
Because why not to demand that all safety regulations including a ban on child labor are followed in agriculture, manufacturing before buying agricultural or manufacturing products from poor countries?
Child labor there are just as terrible, yet most people do not care while reacting strongly on pictures of children mining cobalt. The pictures may well be produced by those who wants to put bad image on electrical cars, not because they cared about children.
The proper solution is to have a careful regulation that heavily tax products from countries with lower safety standards. But this is hard as that makes a lot of things more expensive.
- monocasa 4y agoIdeally we'd ban both, but mining is way worse for children. Even in the global north, it's common for it to be legal for your children to be allowed to work on your farm. I struggle to think of a situation there where your children are mining at an economically viable scale that doesn't result in the state taking your children away for abuse.