A mid-level executive visiting a subsidiary in India
notices a 12-year-old girl cleaning the factory floor. Child labor
is hardly uncommon in India and labor laws are rarely, if ever
enforced. Nevertheless, the executive tells the local manager
to replace (fire) the child worker and replace her with an
adult. The girl is an orphan and sole breadwinner for herself
and 6-year-old brother.
The 12-year-old girl is unable to find another job. So,
in desperation she turns to prostitution. Two years later she
dies of AIDS. Meanwhile, her brother takes up begging. The
brother encounters the same executive while begging outside the
local McDonald’s. She walks rapidly past his outstretched
hand into McDonald’s, where she orders her lunch with fries and
cold milk shake. A year later the boy contracts tuberculosis
and dies.
A mid-level executive visiting a subsidiary in India notices a 12-year-old girl cleaning the factory floor. Child labor
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