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The costs of passing a bill that prohibits child labor is precisely that all the labor that children could have provided for the economy is forgone. So in pure economic terms, there is a loss of value, a sunk cost.
However, the benefit is both economic, and social. The economic benefit is that children will instead go to school, and educate themselves to become more productive workers in the future. And the social benefit is a fairer society, and wealthier too.
He updated the old western Roman Empire laws to make them compatible with the remaining eastern Roman Empire which was about all that was left by the time he came to power in the 6th century.
The reason he wasn't able to finish his speaking tour was because he had a stroke, so he died.
He wondered how the president could ask people who were being physically and mentally abused to retain their self respect
