"Company is still $3.5m in the black on the project after government fines"
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The money will be given to the children, right?
Sure will, money will go to Israel, they buy bombs, bombs find children therefore money being given to children!
Child labor laws are ruining this country! I started at the metal refinery when I was 9, and worked my way up to shift foreman by 12.
i don't know how they can call these places "meat processing plants". they are slaughter houses. for slaughtering
Because people are detached from ethics and humanity as an intended function of capitalism. If people regarded animal welfare every time they needed to eat by being exposed to the slaughter, line might go down. Media is sanitized whatever degree maximizes potential consumer bases, and ultimately profits.
Cost of doing business. Not going to slow anyone down.
Once Trump gets in, and the "Freedom to be Poor" bill is passed than these damn woke liberals won't be able to limit these children's rights like this!
We'll pass Poe's Law too.
We'll pass Poe's Law too.
They're gonna outlaw sarcasm?
Sarcasm is already illegal, idiot
thank you SO MUCH for educating me! I didn't know ANY of that until you so graciously taught me!
What the fuck
And the executives are in jail? Right?
Oh, I can see how you might think that from having basic common sense. But actually, laws are only for poors.
Only if they didn’t give a cut to the regulators. This isn’t a fine. It’s payment so the regulators look the other way.
It’s cheaper for them to break the law and pay a “fine” then to go about things legitimately.
It’s the cost of doing business.
Capitalism at it's finest.
even assuming the truth of the idea that it's good for children to have jobs, do they have to be cruelest and most grueling upton-sinclair ass jobs you can find? at least adults can drink after a long shift at the meat processing factory. kids should be working the register at a movie theater or something. also i can't imagine a small child is as efficient at cleaning out vats of blood as an adult would be
"The children yearn for the mines" -some goofball
And they think an untrained minor will ever effectively clean food production compared to trained adult. Doesn't matter that they are endangering a minor and giving people food poisoning, as long as it's cheaper.
Effective? All that matters is profit, get out of here with that commie crap
No fine for Perdue or Seaboard Triumph Foods though even though the kids were even allowed in the plants. How could we possibly hold them liable for vetting outside contractors.
That's the way it works. It's a risk management and mitigation strategy for companies. You hiring contractors and offload the liability.
From what I understand, and IANAL(with the best of em) we'd have to change the laws to go after companies for their contractor's liability/negligence.
I think you'd be able to go after Perdue or seaboard if you could prove they were grossly negligence or derelict or knowingly hired this contractorbecause they used kids.
But they can play that legal "plausible deniability" card otherwise.
How do I mail a brick?
A fine is merely the cost of doing business.
If we want change, there needs to be jail time.
And yet in the same breath we often point out that prison time doesn't rehabilitate (think petty crime). I think realistic fines to individuals AND companies that are more than "cost of doing business," as well as blacklisting the (undoubtedly several) individals responsible from being able to hold that level of power in an industry, not just the company, then there may be a reasonable deterrent, and it won't be a languishing burden on tax payers to put these guys up in dressed up 4 star hotels.
People deliberately putting children's lives at risk should be jailed the same whether or not they are doing it from hiding behind a limited liability. And also the prisons should be changed so that they are actually about rehabilitation.
The For-profit prison system is fucked, but that doesn't mean jails in general are bad.
Bad idea. Just increase the fines so they outweigh any potential savings the business may have received.
Hit them where it hurts, in their wallets.
Why is it bad?
It's a distraction.
How so?
From a better solution that actually improves the lives of people.
He's just advocating for revenge. It doesn't solve anything.
Let me say it again for the people in the back: it's better to redistribute these people's wealth than to throw them in prison without redistributing their wealth.
Try not to distract from the problem at hand.
I'd say one day for each hour of child labour for everyone who was involved in facilitating it, or had oversight responsibilities.
Cost of doing business it seems
Interesting. I always pictured people in the meat packing business as having such high moral standards.
OK, that's a great start!
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