Essentially, the argument is that work gives children a sense of purpose in life and in the community ... As such, writing things like "Child labor is good," makes you sound like a moustache ...

In their essence, life and people are good. To which we say: Hah! That is not what we see all around us. Man Is Fundamentally ... close to us like a spouse, a child, a friend, our employer ...

Bert and John Jacobs are the founders of T-shirt company Life Is Good, which is valued at $100 million. They are the youngest of six children raised in a lower middle-class family in Boston.