I lack the hubris to tell other people in other countries how to live their lives or develop their societies.
Child labor was, as you pointed out, a huge part of lifting our society into the industrial age, for all of its flaws. As was burning lots of coal and chopping down lots of trees.
Now, with a complete industrial base fully developed, we have the audacity to try and tell other societies that using cheap and plentiful resources like coal, trees and children is morally reprehensible.
He also went to school and now makes more than three bucks an hour which, even when accounting for inflation, was probably more than what those kids were making back then.
It was an unnecessary part. The main reason for it was profit. It was simply a continuation of the economic policies and systems that existed prior to Europeans coming to the Americas. Immigrants make great peasants because they can’t vote.
I’m actually making the true minimum wage as of my last contract wrapping up last week. People often forget what minimum wage actually is.
$0.00 an hour.
For the next month at least until I get whatever’s next lined up.
Can you look in a mirror and say this out loud?
What kind of scorched earth disease-ridden uneducated future are you advocating for?
Of course I can, because I have read quite a few history books. Our industrial base didn’t just appear out of nowhere.
Was child labor unnecessary in the USA and other developed countries? I don’t see how you could ever argue that.
Unnecessary for who? People in 2024 who wish children didn’t have to work under any circumstances?
Child labor remains necessary today, which is why all kinds of labor law carve-outs exist for child labor in agriculture.
HERE IN MAINE they grow lots and lots of potatoes up north. They plan their year around the harvest and rely on children to make it all happen. It’s called “Potato Recess”.
What an unexpected day of posting to defend my initial idea that it isn’t badass to assassinate insurance executives and that we don’t have the right to demand people go to medical school and provide treatment to us.
How do you feel like you did?
It was your idea to assassinate P’nut in the first place, you monster.
Well I didn’t get much done and managed to piss away a cold and unpleasant day inside, so I’d call it a big success.
Next up: Marmots.
Chonky little buddies, or murder mice?
Same, but I did finally watch the healthcare CEO shooting video. That looks like an S&T Station IX (other people on here know more about guns than I do,) so if that’s the case he’ll be found soon.
What if that school receives government money? Hmmm…
Who? The kids? The parents?
Not if the parents consented to it. I’m not willing to call childhood “slavery.”
Who was their guardian?
Recess implies school. And I doubt if a kid refuses, you can whip them into compliance.
Most of the time it was to pay off the parents debts. Not “slavery,” but “indentured servitude.”
But it’s kids, so why are we even splitting hairs about this?
Parents can’t give that consent today.
The state. So essentially, they were slaves owned by the government.
Oddly, under those great past conditions, a parent could allow their child to work on a mine where he would get some horrible illness and die young. But, for those who think that was all ok, why can’t a parent, who has this power over a child, get an abortion and just spare the kid a life of suffering?
WTF does that have to do with whether or not someone chooses to go into healthcare and provide it to others with their time?
Good ol’ Uncle Joe went to public schools and state universities for his entire education. Does that mean he should be compelled to render medical services to the public instead of tying flies and strumming on his banjo?
My friend HERE IN LEWISTON got her nursing education from USM, another state funded school. Instead of practicing nursing at the hospital where she’s needed, she’s off learning how to be a real estate agent. She’s no longer willing to work at the hospital due to the patient overload and staffing ratios this demands.
Should the state compel her to render healthcare services to others?
Because most supporters of capitalism don’t like to admit that capitalism is neither moral nor immoral. They want to believe it’s moral and virtuous while ignoring that many of the most successful capitalists were morally bankrupt and reprehensible. There’s a reason why that animal Ayn Rand hated Christianity. She wanted us to worship the assholes of the world.
Wrong question. It means if he chooses to practice medicine, then he owes the community that provided him with that opportunity something in return. Otherwise, he’s just a welfare queen.
