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Re:No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018) by throw_m239339 on Friday December 04, 2020 @10:18PM (#25311388)
> It's probably true though? Refusing to use child labor is not going to help those kids.

the "at least the slaves aren't starving" argument. Maybe if westerners paid them a bit more, which they can afford, their parents would send these kids to school instead.

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Re:No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018) by ummonk on Friday December 04, 2020 @11:24PM (#25311732)
The alternative that most people go for is generally to pay people in higher wage economies - worsening the lack of opportunity in low wage economies.
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Re:No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018) by throw_m239339 on Friday December 04, 2020 @11:42PM (#25311815)
"low wage" is meaningless. Parents need to be able make a living wage so that they don't have to send their young kids to the factory instead of school.
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