[pontilanda]

Re: child labor.

It's awful but who sends these kids to work? What will a mother of 3 children do if she can't feed herself?

It's a terrible cycle but it takes ages to fix. No foreign company is benefitting from Bangladeshi kids making low-quality bricks for their village. What is the solution today? If you tell them they can't work, who will feed them today?

Are you personally going to donate your money to not only feed all these people, build schools and infrastructure, but also $20/hour to everyone involved in the process?

[cabyn]

Cool points for child labor yo. So because people are in terrible situations, I should actively seek that out to exploit it? Man, these kids have no other choice, better get my cheap labor while I can! Why not even free labor if possible?[1]

Same arguments were used for slave labor. How are they going to take care of themselves? Might as well just keep them as slaves. What are we going to do, pay them?

Child labor has been used by just about every major fashion brand in the world, not just to "make bricks for their village"... If that's the extent of what you think child labor is, might want to check out some books or do some googling. Here's just one to get you started: [2].

[1]https://www.forbes.com/sites/andersonantunes/2011/08/17/zara... [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_sweatshops

[8note]

On what time frame? The west did a colonialism, creating these conditions for the purpose of making these places and people profitable for the west

[ryan93]

Africa would be much more profitable for America if they developed like Japan and China have. Before colonialism they were a prehistoric continent in many places. It was in many cases evil. But I’d didn’t make them poor or backward