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How do you know they are all family and not child labor working to help their families? After all child labor isn't a foreign concept in Afghanistan: https://w

How do you know they are all family and not child labor working to help their families? After all child labor isn't a foreign concept in Afghanistan: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/31/1143143252/afghanistan-taliban-coal-mining-child-labor https://www.npr.org/2022/12/31/1143143252/afghanistan-taliba... I find it strange that child labor invokes such a strong feeling in any article about EV, being associated with cobalt mining, yet it receives such a glove treatment in this discussion.

netsharc 4y ago
Since I joined in on this thread, my "glove treatment" might be romanticizing it, but "helping out" in a quiet hotel/guest house in the mountains is surely a lot more kid-compatible than a coalmine. The top commenter's comment that the article glossed over the fact that kids were made to work in such a place feels overblown. Hey maybe the reality of this hotel work is a bit harsher, but since the reporter didn't shine a light on it, I'd assume she also judged the same way. If the article was about a coal mine and the NYT just glossed over the fact of child labor, then I would agree with such a comment; an article glossing over child labor in a coal mine would be shitty. Edit to add: I like your angle about "It must be an anti-EV brigade!" though, keep on investigating, you're on to a conspiracy! /s