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> Alcohol was fine until hard liquor was invented. Alcohol is no longer fine? > Child work was expected, until factories came along. Doesn't that more have t
by luckylion 4y ago
> Alcohol was fine until hard liquor was invented.
Alcohol is no longer fine?
> Child work was expected, until factories came along.
Doesn't that more have to do with the rising household income (thanks to productivity gains, I'd imagine) and school availability, so people could afford to let their children go to school instead of needing every hand to keep the family afloat?
I've never actually used TikTok, what makes it so much more potent than other products?
- Invictus0 4y ago> Alcohol is no longer fine? Parent is clearly referring to Prohibition
- legitster 4y agoOr even just social norms around day drinking or drinking age etc.
- djkivi 4y agoOr: "No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health" https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-alcohol-consumption-is-safe-for-our-health#:~:text=The%20risks%20and%20harms%20associated,that%20does%20not%20affect%20health https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-....
- falcolas 4y agoOpinion: Informing of the dangers of something is not prohibiting something.
- luckylion 4y agoThat was hundreds (or thousands, depending on how you look at it) of years later though, and more a reaction to religion, not new alcoholic potency.
- schwartzworld 4y agoProhibition was not in response to the invention of hard liquor. Distillation is a lot older than that.
- epolanski 4y agoApparently it has a great algorithm at suggesting things you may lose time at, better than Instagram's or twitter's.