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That "tragically high" number was still a rounding error, though, in the United States. I do wonder if it is a particularly American thing to take the wild exc
by eropple 9y ago
That "tragically high" number was still a rounding error, though, in the United States.
I do wonder if it is a particularly American thing to take the wild exception as the norm like this.
- s_kilk 9y agoIreland, actually. I'd be curious to see the stats, but suffice to say enough families were losing children that there were major changes to farm safety regulation.
- cfadvan 9y agoIreland here as well, and that had a lot to do with poverty and families needing their kids to work at a young age. The same was true in the US before child labor laws. I think a general “ambient” risk and a culture of,having your 9 year old work on the farm or in a mill are fundamentally separate issues.