• ahornsirup@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

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    Kids picking family farms is not “child labor.”

    Yes it fucking is. What the hell. What else would it be? The fact that it’s the parents directly exploiting their children does not make it better.

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      A corporation owning capital is hiring children to labor while they knowingly exploit them.

      A parent exploiting their children to work in a family plot is also a form of child labor but it is not the same. Nor is it capitalist

      Both are abusing children.

      Both deserve prison.

      But only one is capitalism.