[quote]pookie wrote:
orion wrote:
I would not go that far, I just think it is important to point out that in order to have the resources to send children to school you have to have the economy produce that resources first.
So the only way to deal with the worst excesses of capitalism is to use the resources capitalism provides.
That’s ridiculous. You’re saying that capitalism cannot work unless it has first exploited children.
Capitalism works just fine even if you don’t let children get exploited first. That historically, it did not always start off that way doesn’t make it a prerequisite.
In fact, that children were exploited before laws prevented it just shows that capitalism has to be regulated in some manner or fairness will be traded away for profit just like anything else.
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And again those cildren were not exploited.
They were better off than before, granted it is unlikely that this is true for all places.
It was NOT the capitalists fault that the population doubled between 1450 and 1750, that was the situation they found and remedied by multiplying the production of consumer goods in a couple of decades.
What you are suggesting is that you could send children to school before you have the means to do so.
That however would have meant that whole families had starved because they needed them on the fields or, preferably, in a factory.
In the 50s and even 60s children still got school leave in Austria because they were needed for the harvest.
Before enough capital is accumulated to feed children for 4 or even 10 unproductive years, they work or die.
Or otherwise the unlimited resource fairy pays for their education.
