An article which wasn't worth a headline

This is a little off-the-subject but honestly, I couldn't care less. Just as long as I don't have to write exactly the same as everybody else. For my subject I have chosen to write about what Fair trade thinks about child labor.

And as expected, Fair trade is against child labor. And I can absolutely see why. They want to stop the child labor and get the children to go to school and get an education. An education that can change their lives and become the single way out of the poverty. But do they seriously think that these children, who is forced to work several days in a row, in the most dangerous working conditions, have enough money to pay their own education? Do they think they have chosen it? If they could afford an education, why would they be working in the first place? Why would they spend their days suffering if they already had money? These children have to work to survive the day. It's not a decision between work or get an education. It's a decision between live or die.

The children who lost their jobs and don't get any new ones only got two options left. Either, they become a drug dealer or a helper to a drug dealer. And that's some serious shit I can tell you. Or, they become prostitutes and sell their bodies to some old disgusting pedophile.

Wondering where I'm getting at? Sure, fair trade says they are against child labor, but what else? Do they help the children by being against it? Do they give these kids an education, a future? No. To liberate this world from child labor it'll need more than a sentence with the word “against” involved. It might be a step in the right direction. But still, it sounds a little bit lame to me.

But sure. If you want to be sure of that the products you buy is not made by children (which on the other hand right now are selling their bodies), go Fair trade.