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How? Childhood is a rather modern concept and child labour exploitation peaked just a few centuries ago during the Industrial Revolution. What historical event
by throwawaylolx 7y ago
How? Childhood is a rather modern concept and child labour exploitation peaked just a few centuries ago during the Industrial Revolution.
What historical events and periods are you referring to in the past millenia?
- leetcrew 7y agocorrupting the youth was one of the charges against Socrates made by essentially political opponents.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoWhich, incidentally, he was undoubtedly guilty of. By putting all sorts of notions into their heads.
- leetcrew 7y agofrom the perspective of a contemporary Athenian, yes, he did say things that were incompatible with the state religion. I don't think a modern reader necessarily has to agree that that's "corrupting the youth". the Athenians also probably didn't care very much about this anyway. the charge was literally true, but it was also bullshit because none of the accusers actually cared about any of the offenses they were charging him with. what they actually cared about was that he had humiliated them in public on many occasions and his association with (though not outright involvement in) the reign of the thirty tyrants. so actually fairly analogous!