What's the problem with children working as long as there aren't forced to do so? If we are concerned about the economic pressure created from capitalism, the solution is to just give people money/UBI rather than prohibit the options they actively are seeking to deal with economic pressure.
What's the problem with children working as long as there aren't forced to do so?
I think one the problems is that it's quite difficult to identify where a child is choosing to "work", and where a child has been coerced into the activity. There's a reason why we have a concept of ages of consent, where a child cannot consent to certain things, because their brain has failed to develop sufficiently yet in order to either understand the implications of their choices, or to understand whether this is actually their choice, or one that has been bestowed upon them.
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What's the problem with children working as long as there aren't forced to do so? If we are concerned about the economic pressure created from capitalism, the solution is to just give people money/UBI rather than prohibit the options they actively are seeking to deal with economic pressure.
I think one the problems is that it's quite difficult to identify where a child is choosing to "work", and where a child has been coerced into the activity. There's a reason why we have a concept of ages of consent, where a child cannot consent to certain things, because their brain has failed to develop sufficiently yet in order to either understand the implications of their choices, or to understand whether this is actually their choice, or one that has been bestowed upon them.