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I think the difference is between earning a dollar a day, and a dollar every second.
Also education, their own will to participate and the little detail of not sitting underground, inhaling coal dust.
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Child labor is only considered bad if the child is unwilling to do it and if the child is deprived of education and if the occuptation is mentally, physically, socially and morally damaging.
There are laws that protect child artists from being exploited.