Let me clarify, I am not the one who said something about 8 dollars a day, these 11 year old indentured slaves I am referring to are paid nothing besides enough food in their bellies to keep theme working. And yes, sometimes the middle-man in these deals are indeed the parents of the children! That shows extreme desperation in itself, does it not? What type of situation what you have to be in in order to sell your children?
I do not disagree with the idea of children working. Just because our children in the US are able to wait until they are 16 or 17 to start working is not comparable to situations in other countries, and I realize that.
The children I am referring to as slaves are actually indentured slaves, really. I am referring to a very specific population in the cities surrounding Cote d'Ivoire, where children are picked up by the dozen by men looking to transport them into Cote d'Ivoire and sell them to local farmers who are paying a premium to the middle-man for the cost of transportation (it is, of course, illegal to transport the children between the cities and so they must pay large bribes along the way).
So you see, the farmers are making enough money to pay for these children, but the money is going to the wrong people. Instead of the children being paid for their hard work, the middle man, the local police, and the border patrols are being paid for the trafficking costs of these children.
Yes! This is a good point. Some might say that education is free, but there is cost, it takes time and money to educate the public, especially one as naive as ours. I don't want to write about an idea where the government steps in and creates some sort of consumer education board or something, that is
not what I want. I want the idea of a free market to be applied here, and I want the idea to flow naturally into the conclusion that if we created a free market here, that it would result in a good example for other countries
and our free market benefits would "spill over" onto other countries such as Africa and help situations such as the one I have presented.
No, no joke.
I have seen other women on here, maybe you aren't looking hard enough!
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