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> minors get rewarded for signing up for the platforms that are harming them in the first place.

Vietnamese labor laws require higher salaries and more time off for working in hazardous/toxic conditions. These jobs become more attractive than the less toxic/hazardous ones.

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i don't think you're thinking through the incentives-- with higher labor costs the employer has an incentive to take steps to make the job less hazardous.

You say this is as though I were dunking on the idea of hazard pay, and that my dunking deserved a riposte dunking. I am not against hazard pay. Companies have not eliminated hazardous work in Vietnam yet, so the incentive has not gone all the way to its intended end.

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