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No crime, barring [b]child slavery[/b].

http://vision.ucsd.edu/~kbranson/stopchocolateslavery/ataste...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_in_cocoa_production

Top comment, and many comments totally oblivious to the realities of life. Not surprising for HN, sadly. Keep those libertarian blinkers on boys!

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See, the thing is that, when a legal company is caught enslaving children, they get massive political, social, moral and economic pressure to stop. For instance, Nike and its famous sweatshops.

If your business is illegal, however, you're neck deep in shit already, so the marginal benefit for stopping is almost zero. Twenty to fourty years added to a life sentence.

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