worker protection is currently not very effective though. being illegal doesn’t prevent most of those things from happening unless you have union with your coworkers or money for a lawyer. making significant changes to coordination capabilities of a group makes big differences in societal outcomes.
I agree that the current alternative is similarly quite bad though. I have no intent to argue that the situation is currently good, just that the reason people have not improved it is understandable and we need to protect the thing they are worried about.
You can add additional protections for people under 18.
If you believe that an union is required to prevent exploitation you can simply write into the law that you can only employ people under 18 if they are in a union.
At least that would be the German way to approach the situation.
worker protection is currently not very effective though. being illegal doesn’t prevent most of those things from happening unless you have union with your coworkers or money for a lawyer. making significant changes to coordination capabilities of a group makes big differences in societal outcomes.
I agree that the current alternative is similarly quite bad though. I have no intent to argue that the situation is currently good, just that the reason people have not improved it is understandable and we need to protect the thing they are worried about.
You can add additional protections for people under 18.
If you believe that an union is required to prevent exploitation you can simply write into the law that you can only employ people under 18 if they are in a union.
At least that would be the German way to approach the situation.