> Second, the companies paying these children are extracting value from their labor greater than what they are paying the child laborers. From the article: >

> Second, the companies paying these children are extracting value from their labor greater than what they are paying the child laborers. From the article: > He found that an hour’s labor would earn him around $1 to $2, he says, more than the national minimum wage, which was about $0.26 at the time. The kid was probably making more than many adult workers. Also from the article > Platforms require that workers be over 18, but Hassan simply entered a relative’s details and used a corresponding payment method to bypass the checks—and he wasn’t alone in doing so. The article makes it look like the platform was taking willingly taking advantage of underage labor, but it was the kid that was pretending to be an adult because, again, that was a job that was paying 2-3 times more than other regular job in that country.