I mean, may be a hot take, but I don't think people who usually send kids to work are such great parents. They maybe "have to", because they can't stop fucking and have like 15 kids, so of course Timmy needs to go to the mine, or else they couldn't feed all of them

And people being selfish like that also translates to the server problem - if any underpaid server inherited a restaurant inherited a restaurant, do you think they would go "I'm gonna be different. I'm gonna pay my staff a fair wage, and allow them to have a union"? Lol, of course not. Probably all of them would think "I had to work for 2$/hour, now it's your turn. I fucking to mine". So yes, I do believe starving is the right solution, because I do not believe many of them care about a systemic change.