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Re:How China Built ‘iPhone City’ with Billions in Perks for ... by perseusprime11 on Thursday December 29, 2016 @08:10PM (#13281733)
Not trying to be Peter Theil here but why is child labor considered inhuman and cruel? Aren't they getting a chance to learn by doing as opposed to sitting in the classroom and getting to the same place in another 10 years?
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Re:How China Built ‘iPhone City’ with Billions in Perks for ... by burkaman on Thursday December 29, 2016 @11:34PM (#13282540)
"getting a chance"? They're children, they don't have a choice. It's not like they're weighing the options and deciding that school just isn't right for them. Forced labor, child or not, is inhumane and cruel.

And then obviously, you don't learn anything on an assembly line. Please put some more thought into this stuff if you ever plan on having kids.

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