“Incentives are relatively good” doesn’t mean “bad things can’t happen”. Of course it’s still possible for bad things to happen.
I would, however, point out that it’s hard to have a factory full of 10000 child actors, and hard to make significantly more money by ensuring the child actors have bad working conditions. And while there are jokes about out of work actors, an actor who does have a job is likely to be paid more than a factory worker. And there are laws about child actors which discourage some kinds of exploitation.
Yes, some of this is true of other jobs. But a system which evolves piecemeal without being directly designed will mostly involve jobs that are likely to turn up in real life. It won’t include all categories of safe jobs. I suspect that the number of children who are able and willing to do office paperwork for normal office wages just isn’t very big.
“Incentives are relatively good” doesn’t mean “bad things can’t happen”. Of course it’s still possible for bad things to happen.
I would, however, point out that it’s hard to have a factory full of 10000 child actors, and hard to make significantly more money by ensuring the child actors have bad working conditions. And while there are jokes about out of work actors, an actor who does have a job is likely to be paid more than a factory worker. And there are laws about child actors which discourage some kinds of exploitation.
Yes, some of this is true of other jobs. But a system which evolves piecemeal without being directly designed will mostly involve jobs that are likely to turn up in real life. It won’t include all categories of safe jobs. I suspect that the number of children who are able and willing to do office paperwork for normal office wages just isn’t very big.