(Video) Campos Neto sparks outrage on social media by saying Pix has made it easier for children to sell products.
The president of the Central Bank was accused of defending child labor.
247 - Internet users criticized the president of the Central Bank, Roberto Campos Neto, after he said he was "moved" by a young person (child or teenager) working in a restaurant. Historian Jones Manoel stated that "no one on the panel" of the Roda Viva program on TV Cultura "questioned this absurd statement." "They are the heirs of the Big House and the modern-day overseers."
Campos Neto said: "Let's look at what PIX has done for people. The other day I was in a restaurant, a boy came to sell me a small product. I was moved because I saw that he was selling it and I didn't have any cash. He said: 'It's through PIX'. I said: 'Does PIX help your life?'. He said: 'PIX changed my life'."
In Brazil, child labor is considered to be any activity performed by children or adolescents under the age of 16.
Another social media user wrote: "That's absurd. The person says that casually on a live TV channel, without even thinking about the seriousness of such a statement."
One internet user said that Campos Neto's "project" is "poverty, it's astonishing."
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