America's Misconception and Ignorant Proliferation of Global, Child Labor

 

The Solution

The reason most here in America are so ignorant matters not to those suffering to make the materials we consume so ravenously in this Nation, though. Those feeding the product supply tainted with child labor, are as guilty as those employing children to produce their goods.   If the desires to criminalize child labor here in America were exercised with conscious effort, the Government would see fit to refuse any imports which utilized child labor to produce them.   Shoppers as well, should research where products are made and track the country of origin's record on the matter.   A lower price to save a dollar could easily mean a much higher price to those slaving to produce that product.

 

Simply put, forced child labor is at an all time high around the world, serving only one, true purpose; to produce cheap goods to feed off the Global market in order to garner greater profits.   The increase of this Global pandemic is a reflection of not only the increasing demand for affordable goods in a worsening economy but the sad reality of a lowering of not only concern for those suffering to produce them and the lessening of Global market morals and ethics.   We Americans have always been the leaders in the realm of what freedom stands for, our continued support of those companies that work as an antithesis of freedom for so many, does nothing but deny our basic, National tenet.  

 

Child labor is not defined as they who have to do the dishes or mow the lawn.   It is not defined as a child who wants to take on a paper route to afford a video game.   It is defined through the exploitation of the poor among us on this Blue Marble who have to suffer only to bring us people living in the richest of nations, a bit of pleasure.   If we are to truly represent freedom and Democracy and stand as the light "Beside the Golden Door", then we must all take a moment to evaluate how little we practice what we preach.   In order to truly represent freedom, then we must do all we can to end the practices of child labor: The antithesis of it.   Not until then will we truly be a nation that represents what freedom is.

 

 

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