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Re:Cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana: CBS News ... by KPGv2 on Friday December 01, 2023 @07:40PM (#38494589)
This. You can literally read the history of China since the 1990s and witness this exact phenomenon! Child labor goes down, wages go up, adult employment goes up, poverty goes down...
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Re:Cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana: CBS News ... by chrisco255 on Friday December 01, 2023 @07:50PM (#38494656)
No, it's the other way around: wages go up, then child labor goes down. Also, China is not a great example as it had a One Child policy for most of the last 50 years. In Ghana, for example, there is an average of 4 children per woman.
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Re:Cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana: CBS News ... by KPGv2 on Friday December 01, 2023 @10:40PM (#38495662)
That's a good point about the OCP. I hadn't considered that.
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