Well i did summer corn detasseling at age 13-14 and knew some who were related to the owners and started age 10-11 and that's in good old USA. In fact, farm labor at any age is legal here, so even worse than Bolivia. I assure you that was not easy or entirely safe work, 56 hrs/week. Given the peer pressure to sign up in rural areas (same with driver's ed and football), maybe we should ban imports from ourselves.
I'd like to hear your reasoning for this objection, because to me driver's ed at 15 and football at 8-9 is just as abusive. But hey, allowing 15 year old to drive gives mcdonald's a steady stream of labor. More important than safety i know
Because those aren't careers. That's why. The best system for tomorrows' society is one where people are trained for future careers, not for the jobs that sadly are being allowed to be filled by humans today.
Well, reading the article I don't think I'd object too much. Looks like they require not only the childs consent but also parents and an "ombudsman" consent. Plus they can only be self employed at age 10, at age 12 they can work for others. Not really much different here in the states. At age 10 a child can have a lemonade stand and at age 12 they can do things like baby sit, their equivalent of working for others. Plus it looks like an employer will have to follow strict standards.
So long as strict laws are there to protect the child AND they are followed to the T I have no problem with it.
The trick is knowing what those future jobs are. Industries seem to change overnight and by the time a workforce is trained their skills become obsolete and replaced by new technology and/or more efficient methods. That might part of the reason the US had a jobless economic recovery.
Because those aren't careers. That's why. The best system for tomorrows' society is one where people are trained for future careers, not for the jobs that sadly are being allowed to be filled by humans today.
If kids want to work, let them.
well, there isn't much "trick" to it.
Best Jobs Of The Future - Business Insider
Everyone, including me, can give you a top 10 list easily.
Programmers are top of the line.
Engineers (from technical branches).
Doctors.
Lawyers and other judicial employees.
Teachers.
City planners
arhitects
Chemists
Biologists
Geologists
Chefs and food specialists
etc
What you won't see is factory workers coz of automation.
Retailers... they need to go out.
fast food workers should get expired.
etc
Glad to see that bankers and hedge fund managers weren't on the list. lol But I think some of those careers (teachers, doctors..) are already starting to get replaced by robotics and internet DIY'ers. IE: robots are doing surgery and dentistry. Almost anyone can watch the food channel for a few months and learn to cook like a chef. There are YouTube videos for almost anything you might want to learn and that access to information could easily eliminate a lot of teaching jobs and/or brick and mortar schools which in turn would eliminate the need for a lot of administrators which could save local and state governments tons of money. It's predicted that preventive medicine will reduce the need for surgeries and long term medical care and that could translate into less demand for health care givers and hospitals which would reduce the demand for administrators, doctors, nurses. As the costs of medical care becomes more transparent the public can make better choices about their health care and would probably use the medical system less frivolously which also bring down costs and demand for a lot of those jobs on the list.
Most everything will eventually be better done by robots, if Humans survive long enough and can keep their act together. In the meantime the kids are toiling away.
In Bolivia entry into the workforce has been reduced to 10 years of age. The measure is to reduce poverty in the country.
Must we ban imports from the country?
Bolivia congress allows child labor from age 10
I'm a firm believer in giving kids chores and age appropriate responsibilities. But I think there probably are some farm chores that kids just shouldn't do. Operating a thrasher, alone, out in a field might be one.
My thoughts about this are on a completely different track than anyone else's so far it seems. My overriding thought is how sad it is that in order to get out of poverty more persons within a family have to work instead of having living wages for parents. We've been heading in that direction for a while, though recently some hopeful steps have been afoot.
In Bolivia entry into the workforce has been reduced to 10 years of age. The measure is to reduce poverty in the country.
Must we ban imports from the country?
Bolivia congress allows child labor from age 10
Child Labor in the United States
Forms of child labor, including indentured servitude and child slavery, have existed throughout American history. As industrialization moved workers from farms and home workshops into urban areas and factory work, children were often preferred, because factory owners viewed them as more manageable, cheaper, and less likely to strike. Growing opposition to child labor in the North caused many factories to move to the South. By 1900, states varied considerably in whether they had child labor standards and in their content and degree of enforcement. By then, American children worked in large numbers in mines, glass factories, textiles, agriculture, canneries, home industries, and as newsboys, messengers, bootblacks, and peddlers.
The Prime Directive makes perfect sense to me. We have no right to impose our morality and laws on other countries. It's gotten us into more trouble than we even know.
My thoughts about this are on a completely different track than anyone else's so far it seems. My overriding thought is how sad it is that in order to get out of poverty more persons within a family have to work instead of having living wages for parents. We've been heading in that direction for a while, though recently some hopeful steps have been afoot.
In Bolivia entry into the workforce has been reduced to 10 years of age. The measure is to reduce poverty in the country.
Must we ban imports from the country?
Bolivia congress allows child labor from age 10
In Bolivia entry into the workforce has been reduced to 10 years of age. The measure is to reduce poverty in the country.
Must we ban imports from the country?
Bolivia congress allows child labor from age 10
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