There was a joke on an Aussie comedy show the other night about Temu amd China using Child labour and stealing your data and I had to laugh considering the West was outright caught using Child slaves for chocolate (Nestlé)
How true is the claim that China does it too?
Even if they do, it’s still hypocritical for the West to focus on it without addressing that the West used child labour.
By the way the ruling class in the west is trying get rid of child labour laws. Isn’t capitalism great? Send the kiddies back to the mines! Who needs a childhood?
Also as for stealing data? Bruh China doesn’t need to steal it, they can just buy it from all the US corporations stealing and selling your data.
In the way that rural folk have their kids help out around, it’s definitely true. I went to my cousin’s husband’s old family home in the boondocks in Hubei and they had their 12 year old cleaning and loading chicken eggs into cartons for sale at the market the next day. Or their other kid feeding said chickens (it’s fucking wild, the chickens just hang around the bamboo forest in the mountains all day and flock back around feeding time). I mean this is technically using child labour for profit but, like, to the extent I’ve seen in the west, as well
Although this was like 12 years ago and the kids are no longer children and the family moved to an apartment complex in a slightly larger town nearby so.
In terms of within industry, I wouldn’t be surprised if some companies continue to do it illegally after crackdowns in recent decades as well as increased automation making it unfeasible, but it would be a declining minority. It is against the constitution and the benefits of paying them less is outweighed by the consequences. Esp since Xi has been extremely hard on bribing low level officials to let that shit slide.