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Welcome to current year. Its all good as long as the children been exploited are not the children of the people who vote for you. Its all green as long as the c
by irusensei 4y ago
Welcome to current year. Its all good as long as the children been exploited are not the children of the people who vote for you. Its all green as long as the coal or oil burning is being done away from your borders.
- danans 4y ago> Welcome to current year. Its all good as long as the children been exploited are not the children of the people who vote for you. That's been happening forever, not just the current year. Child labor sweatshops were a major source of industrial productivity for centuries the world over until relatively recently. Charles Dickens' novels turned it into an adjective in English bearing his name that described (among other things) the indifference of those in power to child labor.
- blacksqr 4y agoThey used the term "current year" because it can be repeated verbatim any year going back forever.
- danans 4y agoThat's not an English idiom that I've ever heard or read before. The lack of a "the" before "current" suggests it's a translation from a language that does not make compulsory use of articles. Perhaps it's an idiom in that language.
- selimthegrim 4y agoBracketing current year would have made it a little more comprehensible
- danans 4y agoI agree. That would have changed the meaning completely.
- anon_123g987 4y agoI've only ever read this on Hacker News, in the form "Welcome to $current_year!", where $ is the scalar sigil in the Perl programming language, indicating that it's a variable, and should be substituted by the reader as necessary.
- zoklet-enjoyer 4y ago