The following is link to the article “In Afghan Kilns, a Cycle of Debt and Servitude” by Michael Kamber.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/world/asia/16kiln.html?pagewanted=1&ref=childlabor

This article shows the labor problems in Afghanistan, where people are suffering from the endless cycle of slavery labor.

While reading this article, I was reminded of the child labor problems within the plantations in Africa. The thing is that many ethnical problems regarding businesses, especially the ones related to labors, usually take places in poor regions or nations with not really well-organized system, such as some parts of China, Philippines and African countries.

Hence we can see that government intervention is needed to solve issues related to business ethnics. Moral management is important. It is important for companies to make ethnically right decisions themselves rather than only focusing on HOW TO MAKE MORE MONEY. However, as we all know, the very first purpose of business is to make profits. As we all read in the assigned article, “The social responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits,” those businessmen might not always be considering moral values when making decisions. That is why we sometimes need government intervention, even though we live in a democratic and capitalistic society, where we are supposed to be given choices to decide on our own.

The Afghan workers in the article did not choose to work at those kilns on their own, but they had to borrow money and go to work, since they had no other choice. Now the owners are saying that they didn’t force the workers to come to work. If the government was able to support the poor people in anyway, they would not have gotten into this terrible cycle of labor.

Therefore, in my point of view the government should be involved in solving business ethnical issues, whether by helping the individual citizens or taking parts in companies’ decision-making process.