It is easy to be offended that a clothing brand makes children work on the other side of the world behind sewing machines. We would even be ready to boycott it. We are less offended by kids of roughly the same age who make the "choufs" in front of the deal points of Marseille at the risk of taking a burst of Kalashnikov or being beaten in a cellar because they did not know how to spot in time a police patrol. This teenage underworld also lives under the thumb of exploitative bosses who stop at nothing to run their "shops" 24/24. And behind the wads that are waved in front of these kids, there is often only the coffin or the prison.
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