Robots and camels
Robots replace child jockeys in Arab camel race. Don’t liberal do-gooders know that families in Bangladesh depend on the remittances sent by the child jockeys?
Update: Just want to make clear, the initial post was meant in mirth. I really didn’t know how serious the whole “camel jockey” thing was.
And with that money they visit the biggest mall in South Asia at Bushandara city.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/19/international/asia/19dhaka.html?hp
Who isn’t familiar with the various unintended consequences of benevolence argument libetarians like to trot out regularly. But surely one can understand a child working in a factory in a third world is quite different than being abducted, abused and used as a slave for Arab bloodsport.
NdNK,
“Bloodsport” – please explain??
Isn’t this camel racing??
What happens before and after the race: Bloodsport
http://www.gluckman.com/camelracing.html
I would worry about what happens once the children get too old and heavy, also about starving them to keep their weight down and prevent growth. But I wouldn’t worry for very long. With a world full of injustice and needless suffering, the only reason for me to focus on this one would be confirmation bias for my crude feeling that “Arabs are bad”, especially since the child jockeys may not be used in the future due to these robots.
The fact that bots are replacing kids has probably at least a little to do with liberal do-gooders applying political pressure to the Gulf States.
Isn’t that one of the functions of a free press: to put a spotlight on issues even though the world is rife with injustice and suffering in every corner.
this was a joke, but i guess camel jockeying is a more serious issue than i’d thought.
Racist.