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Sarcasm: until we had publicly funded schools, what else was the urban working class going to do with their children all day long? Putting them to work made sen

Sarcasm: until we had publicly funded schools, what else was the urban working class going to do with their children all day long? Putting them to work made sense in a "making the ends meet" sort of way.

MarkMarine 4y ago
Talking about this stuff really makes people drop their masks. How many children should we use to grease the wheels of capital accumulation? How good is this system if that’s what it requires.
- WalterBright 4y ago
  I recommend you take a tour of a reconstruction of an 1800-era dwelling and have a good hard look at how people lived. I toured Mt Vernon recently (George Washington's estate). He was probably the richest man in America at the time. You and I live better than he did. You seem to think there was all this wealth sloshing around at the time. Nope.
  - MarkMarine 4y ago
    I think you’re fine with letting 8 year olds die in a mill, letting normal people have their meaningless lives of working 80 hours a week for little to no money, just to survive, while robber barons live in gilded mansions and build a new solid house out of marble every year to impress their rich friends. The inequality you’re pitching only ends in one place.
WalterBright 4y ago
And kids had summers off from school not for "vacation", but to work the farms. Something like 97% of the population worked on the farms in those days trying to raise enough food. Do you know that women in America use to spend all day in the kitchen managing the wood stove, which was very labor intensive? Any free time they had was spent spinning, weaving, sewing, and mending. Gas/electric stoves are modern miracles, as are sewing machines, electric refrigerators, dishwashers, clothes washers, dryers, all sorts of liberating machinery. And most especially, indoor plumbing! Who do you think ran out to the town well constantly to pump a pail of water?
WalterBright 4y ago
Have you ever wondered why, as productivity increased, the number of children per family decreased? This happens consistently in country after country.

MarkMarine 4y ago

Talking about this stuff really makes people drop their masks. How many children should we use to grease the wheels of capital accumulation? How good is this system if that’s what it requires.

WalterBright 4y ago
I recommend you take a tour of a reconstruction of an 1800-era dwelling and have a good hard look at how people lived. I toured Mt Vernon recently (George Washington's estate). He was probably the richest man in America at the time. You and I live better than he did. You seem to think there was all this wealth sloshing around at the time. Nope.
- MarkMarine 4y ago
  I think you’re fine with letting 8 year olds die in a mill, letting normal people have their meaningless lives of working 80 hours a week for little to no money, just to survive, while robber barons live in gilded mansions and build a new solid house out of marble every year to impress their rich friends. The inequality you’re pitching only ends in one place.

WalterBright 4y ago

And kids had summers off from school not for "vacation", but to work the farms. Something like 97% of the population worked on the farms in those days trying to raise enough food. Do you know that women in America use to spend all day in the kitchen managing the wood stove, which was very labor intensive? Any free time they had was spent spinning, weaving, sewing, and mending. Gas/electric stoves are modern miracles, as are sewing machines, electric refrigerators, dishwashers, clothes washers, dryers, all sorts of liberating machinery. And most especially, indoor plumbing! Who do you think ran out to the town well constantly to pump a pail of water?

WalterBright 4y ago

Have you ever wondered why, as productivity increased, the number of children per family decreased? This happens consistently in country after country.