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Same thing with child labor. Apparently it being outlawed was the end of American industry.

• chordalkeyboard 6y ago
  Actually industry is what made it possible to outlaw child labor by increasing the productivity of the individual worker so they could afford to live without putting their children to work. You can see this where non-industrialized countries still have subsistence level families that have as many children as possible in order that they may work to support the family. It's not because they are backwards, its because they have no other option because of the lack of capital.
  • charlesu 6y ago
    But the children I’m referring to were working in factories in a rapidly industrializing country.
    • chordalkeyboard 6y ago
      Yes, eventually the country industrialized to the point that people could afford to live and raise a family without sending those children to work in a factory. They did have to wait for patents on the machines to expire so that more than a handful of wealthy individuals could own capital goods.