treehugger.com — Tell a kid to do some work, like clean their room or take out the garbage, and they roll their eyes and run in the other direction. If you’re living in a rural village in Africa, Mom might ask you to walk 2 miles for a bucket of water. What do you do? Why go to play of course!
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pintomp3Apr 1, 2008
mowing the lawn once a week isn't the same as working in a factory for 12 hours and not getting an education. i don't think this merri go round is child labor. unless they force the children to spin it all day and prevent them from going to school.
Closed AccountApr 1, 2008
This does not seem a very good idea. It isnt child labor, they are having fun of course, but the flow of water depends only on children's whim.... if they want them to play 24/7 it would then develop into child labor, or forced playtime, hehe. But they cant expect children to be constantly playing on this, so the water pump would only work sporadically. Hmm.... I am thirsty.... what time is recess?
jocnnorApr 1, 2008
Actually, after read an insightful and well written post, seeing -Pie at the end just kind of took something away. It's hard to take someone serious when they have a name like Zinglebert Bambledack or Yingeebert Dangleban, or Zanglebert Dingleback...or Pie even.
Closed AccountApr 1, 2008
If you haven't heard about it, somewhere they hooked up some stuff to a busy revolving door, and that powered stuff all day long while people walked through it. I mean...how long is it going to take for people to catch on to the fact that there are other ways to power things?This isn't the door in use (I couldn't find it), but similar:<a class="user" href="http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/02/07/generate-energy-with-fluxxlabs-revolution-revolving-door/">http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/02/07/generate-energ ...</a>
senixonApr 1, 2008
my point was... they are kids!!! You have no issue with that, do you?
hairyfotrApr 3, 2008
Ofcourse child labour is wrong... but dying of thirst is well... very very very wrong.Also, here it's about survival, not profit.