Reprinted from The Weekly "Low" Standard.
UNICEF's thinking about the effects of child labor is all very wrongheaded. In fact they are actually doing Third World kids a disservice, since by starting work so early in life, surely these busy boys and girls will be able to accumulate extremely substantial pension dividends for their retirements. After a lifetime spent stitching together high performance sports sneakers, and assuming that his or her investments are prudent, the average Ricketistani orphan will be able to enjoy his or her twilight years in the lap of whatever passes for luxury on the Dark Continent.
How I wish I had spent my pre-teen years in a windowless shack profitably producing nasty, cheap
polyester clothing so that cretinous Western kids could look ridiculous in
suburban discotheques, rather than being a cretinous Western kid who
looked ridiculous in a suburban discotheque, and will consequently have
to rely on non-existant social security payments so that he can barely
subsist as a cretinous old hack journalist looking ridiculous in a crumbling pre-fab
retirement home that stinks of urine.
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