Surely the The moral superiority comment was tongue in cheek!
Let's not get too exercised by a bit of humour.
And apparently nearly 60% of all child labourers work in agriculture - in tea, coffee, cocoa, sugar, cotton production industries.
So why does it happen -
A complex mixture of social attitudes, rampant poverty, household dependency, alternative constructions of childhood, production cycles and poor labour law enforcement
(https://www.york.ac.uk/igdc/news/news/2022/agricultural-child-labour/)
Let's not become too morally superior here.
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