In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, dkemppai wrote:

[quote="Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)"]
I believe that growth from a third-world country to a thriving, green, and safe industrial economy has to go through stages like this. It's just part of a process that we shouldn't be too quick to judge through the lens of our own, more modern culture. After all, look at how we got where we are now from the days of the industrial revolution. We had sweatshops and child labor, our air stank, and our environment was covered with the soot of too many smokestacks. China, for example, is now in the throes of the same kind of development that built the Western countries. Safe labor laws, environmental regulation, and the like are a necessity in a modern society and ultimately for the world as a whole; but they're a luxury in places that are still trying to bootstrap viable industrial economies. In time, these places, too, will be able to afford the more stringent regulations that keep people like us safe and green. But it's not a priority when your main goal is to feed your family on a business that must, of necessity, be run on the thinnest of shoestrings.

-Phil[/quote]
In all seriousness, I was thinking along the same lines. The country as a whole wins. However, the only down side is the possibility of a shortened lifespan of the individuals involved in the somewhat risky behavior. But, then again, not working and starving to death would probably lead to a shorter life span than working...

 

-Dan

 

"Says Dan, who welds with eyes closed, and no mask and gloves when a quick weld is all that's needed...   ...and he knows better."

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