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You have identified a key problem in modern capitalism. None of the answers that actually solve the problem in good ways can be found in "more capitalism". Ki
by dsr_ 3y ago
You have identified a key problem in modern capitalism.
None of the answers that actually solve the problem in good ways can be found in "more capitalism".
Kids will attend school if and only if their families send them. The expected economic value this week needs to be higher than the value of putting the kids to work. Saying that educated kids will have a higher economic value in the future is useless in the short term.
Long term, the countries that haven't gone through the demographic transition need to be pulled through it.
- Scandiravian 3y agoCompletely agree with your comment. What makes me annoyed about statements like "this will reduce the amount of child labour used to produce X" is that they're almost never followed up with an explanation on how to deal with the fallout of the loss of income for the affected families. It's a marketing strategy to make consumers feel good about not supporting child labour, not about improving the lives of those children. I didn't include it in my comment, but my suggestion would be to put a tax on a product like this that is used to replace the lost income of these families. It would have to be global to reach a scale that would have the required impact, which means that it will, unfortunately, never happen.
- albertopv 3y agoI'm much more educated than my parents and I make much less than them. Higher education is appealing no more, on average.