[Lawtonfogle]

It is better than nothing. Consider the most extreme case, child labor (and I don't mean teenagers working at their parent's business). Enough people thought this was not better than nothing and thus pushed to end the practice. In some places this worked (more through economic pressure than laws if memory serves). The children who ended up with nothing found that they were worse off and many turned to the world's oldest profession to make money. They ended up worse off because nothing is worse than being exploited.