[SanFranManDan]

So now the cost of labor went up 6x? Don't you see a problem in that solution? The people only have jobs because labor is so cheap.

Other countries don't have child labor laws because their job market evolved and pushed the low labor cost jobs into other countries.

[bisby]

I agree that labor cost is going to go up. And the whole point of this being enforced from the US side through tariffs and import regulations is so that when country A enacts child labor laws, Apple doesn't just move to country B.

And I'm aware that it's a complicated, sensitive topic. That was my point. But dismissing it entirely because solution X creates problem Y instead of finding solution Y (which probably causes problem Z, which will have a solution eventually too) is not the right answer. Saying "Well we just can't solve this problem, they get to live in squalor and there's NOTHING that can be done to help them" is ridiculous.