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I'm suspicious of this particular image, but Lewis Hine absolutely took similar pictures: https://time.com/3805208/tracking-down-lewis-hines-forgotten-child-laborers/

If the economy doesn't work without slaves then let it collapse.
What you call economy is the siphoning of wealth.

Those doing actual work will survive, because they can work.
Some leeches may starve, but that's a price I'm willing to pay.

Kill the prime minister!

Hard Kids Create Strong Beans,

Strong Beans Create Good Burritos,

Good Burritos Create Fat Kids,

Fat Kids Create Hard Poops,

Edit: wait a minute... Is that right?

I'll just leave this here...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1043951X1630061X

![Chinese workers assemble electronic components at a factory in Shenzhen in the southern Guangzhou province in May 2010] (https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/f6f311ce-15bb-4e70-81d9-8d056aa1a41f.jpeg)

While it's not exclusive to capitalism but it is inherent to capitalism because exploitation is inherent to capitalism. I don't see why we should stick to a system that not only doesn't serve us but actively works against us.

And I'd be less concerned about the same people put back into positions of power. To change the system you need to remove the people who don't want to change and replace them with people who do want change. They're not interested in changing the system so they need to be replaced for change to happen in the first piece.

That's actually a very valid point. Sweatshops aren't just a capitalist invention - they occur in lots of places with different types of government.

exclusive

that’s neat but misses the entire point. we are currently under capitalism and your “yeah but the other guys…” bifurcates the energy needed to keep being angry at capitalism. stop that. :)

The nature of work (employment) under capitalism is different though.

1. It overrides intrinsic motivations (love, community, fun, meeting needs) and forces upon us an extrinsic motivation (make as much money for the boss as possible or starve to death.)
2. It is inherently cruel and wasteful. We already produce enough to meet everyone's needs, yet the capitalist hoards the fruits of working class labor, then forces us to buy it back from them. And whatever can't be sold will be discarded rather than given to people who need it. Food will be thrown into dumpsters while children starve in the streets. Poverty is a feature under capitalism, not a bug. When you see a hungry person under capitalism, remember that they are not hungry because they failed to earn food, they are hungry because food was willfully withheld from them.
3. It is inherently exploitative. Your employer will never pay you the full value of your labor. If they did, they wouldn't have any incentive to employ you. They always steal some or a lot of the value you produce with your labor.
4. It is inherently authoritarian and alienating. It separates you from the fruits of your labor. It forces you to compete with your coworkers. You have no say in what you produce, how you produce, and where you send it after it's produced. You have no say in the hours you work, when you take breaks, what you wear, how you talk, and how to treat customers. If you break the rules, your employer will deprive you and your family of your livelihood.

Yes, children will always work. Work is a good thing. But it is for all the above reasons and more that we must not let capitalists employ children. And they're also the reasons why capitalism must be abolished entirely. It cannot be reformed.

Can you give an example?

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Its important to have all the context here. Children of poor families worked at these places, not wealthy people. It was a necessity for those families, or they wont eat. Its a systemic failure, not a parental one. Especially when they didn't have a choice.

We don't have a society. We have a torment nexus.