Re: Child Labor in New Mexico!

On Aug 24, 12:02?pm, Ken Cashion <kcash...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:56:58 -0000, Shy Picker <whatsamata...@xxxxxxx>
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On Aug 23, 11:02?am, Ken Cashion <kcash...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:24:05 -0000, Shy Picker <whatsamata...@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Aug 22, 8:10?pm, Dwight <Dwight@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Debra Cowan wrote:
Steve Daniels wrote:

Unfortunately, child labor in New Mexico isn't as funny as child
labor in Canada.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/us/22kid.html?ref=business

Lord of the Flies, anyone?

Deb

I grew up in New Mexico and I've had a job since I was 13. Before that I
mowed lawns for money. I got my driver's license at 13 and had to pay
for my gas, of course it was only 25 cents per gallon at that time. No
one made me work, I just liked money. :) I apologize for interrupting
the thread, wait I'm sorry that's a different thread. :)

Dwight

I started working when I was 12 or 13 too and I am sure I got ripped
off a few times not getting paid what I should but I doubt it comes
anywhere close to the sweatshops in some of them third world
countries.

David

It could depend on what one is expecting. There are jobs that we
would not do but others would kill to have...literally, possibly. If
a fellow was expecting backbreaking work for 12 hours a day and he
learned it would only be for 10 hours a day...he might think himself
very fortunate...though he might miss the money.

In the 1300s, I would not have wanted to live like the poor or rich.
They seemed to have managed.

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Yes, when a person is starving, he may feel fortunate to work 12 hours
at hard labor for a few crumbs of bread if that is his only option.
However, it does not make it ok for the person who is taking advantage
of the situation and only paying that person such a meager wage for
that much work just because he can get away with it.

David

David, of course, you are correct, but you are carrying the example to
the extreme when you are talking about starvation. The fellow in your
example is paying what the market will bear...pretty much as is done a
lot of places now.

This practice just "is." It always was and always will be. The
person in your example did not starve. Others, who did not have the
crumbs did starve. The right and wrong of is a different subject.

This can change when the starving organize. Maybe. Then we would
learn the truth of the matter but the right and wrong would still be a
mootable point.

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Your argument is always the one used by sweatshop owners and coal mine
owners that resist paying their workers a decent wage or even caring
about their safety wile they are working as cheap labor.

They are not paying what the Market will bear, they are paying as
little as they can get away with.

No wonder we wound up with such stong unions in this country.

David


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