On: Apple fires Chinese supplier for using underage workers

You're right that children shouldn't have to work. But in the situations where they do anyway, it serves them better to fix the underlying problem -- poverty -- than to fire them and send them right back to the conditions they tried to escape. Because when legal means of earning money aren't available, what's left but gangs, robbery, drugs and prostitution?

Again, I'm not talking about kids who are forced into work, aka slaves. I'm also not trying to implicate Apple here. It seems like they're doing the right thing by educating the underage workers and guaranteeing them their previous income.

You're right - children tend to work because they need to work, not for fun or to get a bit of cash for nonsense.

But that's why it's important to have strict laws. Desperate people are easy to exploit.

I guess it's better that they're exploited in a clean factory rather than sold to be indentured slaves or worse.