ben powell for one. he wrote a book we ought to let children work. that sounds awful. >> child labor might be awful, but prohibiting it is an awful lot worse. listen, we don't make people better off when we take away their least bad option. children only work in these because their family is desperately poor. if you ban sweatshops you don't get rid of that poverty, you eliminate that one option they have that makes it not quite as bad as it would be otherwise. >> so no laws against it. >> when we were developing we had virtually no laws against it. and the process of development took care of it itself. we didn't have a national labor law until 1938. it followed the economic development. this completely makes sense. labor hood agitated -- once the process of competition raised standards including no more child labor then businesses didn't lobby against it and governments adopted laws. >> here's an example of how the western media covers the child labor outrage. >> it is 800 degrees celsius. look at this small boy. and who is at fault? big corporations