> I don't think this form of child labor should be discouraged, but rather encouraged. I think the issue is not the formative experience of labour but the lift

> I don't think this form of child labor should be discouraged, but rather encouraged. I think the issue is not the formative experience of labour but the lifting of restrictions on 'dangerous jobs'. The motivation behind this is not to enable children autonomy but to maintain the cost of labour low specifically to prop up the slaughterhouse/meat packing industry, and other 'dirty' job industries with labour 'shortages' i.e. we don't want to raise salaries shortages. Exposing kids to toxic cleaning agents, hazards, and general heavy machinery is a recipe for accidents and is simply not OK more so when it is quite obviously greed driven.