Comment by simianwords
17 days ago
What’s your alternative? The people in villages are struggling without jobs and they are poor. They don’t even have food to put on their plate.
They make irrational decisions - don’t send their kids to school, make them work in farms. They are mentally stunted because of low quality food. They vote for idiots which stall progress even more.
You show concern but what is the alternative? Ask the capitalists for even more money?
> What’s your alternative?
Let women work the jobs, and laws mandating upfront transparency and mental health support. It shouldn't increase costs significantly and the benefits in human dignity will be more than worth it.
And don't stop working to make governments more honest, so other jobs can be established. Improve education so silly superstitions don't keep women locked out of large swathes of society and work.
Ending world hunger isn’t that expensive: https://wfpusa.org/news/how-much-would-it-cost-to-end-world-...
Nvidia’s profit alone would’ve been more than enough to end world hunger by these estimates.
this article is false
Baseless accusation. The article is true of course.
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Ask the capitalists for even more money?
yes, all that profit they are making should be invested into the future of our society. globally.
poor people don't send their kids to school because school costs money, which they don't have. school is an investment into the future. but you can't make an investment if you don't have anything to invest. which is why that investment needs to come from those who have the money.
so unless they give enough money, they should not be able to employ the people who need the employment?
You suggest that the state set minimum wage above what the lady already earns? She earns way more than minimum wage.
i am not necessarily agreeing with any of the opinions shared above. when someone jumps into a thread like i did this can easily be missed. so please forget all of that discussion, as it is not relevant to my argument. i am a different commenter.
what i am suggesting is that the only way to lead people out of poverty as a society is to heavily invest in education. paid for by taxing those that make all the profits. paid in such a way that sending children to school offsets the loss of income the family would have from letting the children work in the fields. (in some places in africa this works because the school is the only place where the kids get food.)
i am not suggesting that these jobs should go away. that's besides the point. i am not sharing any opinion about those jobs or the current situation.
what i am suggesting is that instead of arguing about the situation or complaining about those jobs, the best way to make life really better for these people is to improve their education.
the companies that provide these jobs could be contributing to that too by not only paying good salaries as they are but also directly investing into the building of schools, and making sending children to school a condition of employment.
You sound like Johnathan Swift satirically suggesting that the Irish sell their children to be eaten by their landlords.