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OP lives in a fantasy world where every culture should be bulldozed to make way for endless middle class cul-de-sacs and McMansions. It's perfectly normal in m

OP lives in a fantasy world where every culture should be bulldozed to make way for endless middle class cul-de-sacs and McMansions. It's perfectly normal in most of the world for children to be involved in family businesses or even working to help support the family, rather than living in some entitled bubble where they're the center of everything.

jacquesm 4y ago
You could have made your point more effectively without the insults and the sleights.
shrimp_emoji 4y ago
Hey, that's where I live!
jryle70 4y ago
How do you know they are all family and not child labor working to help their families? After all child labor isn't a foreign concept in Afghanistan: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/31/1143143252/afghanistan-taliban-coal-mining-child-labor https://www.npr.org/2022/12/31/1143143252/afghanistan-taliba... I find it strange that child labor invokes such a strong feeling in any article about EV, being associated with cobalt mining, yet it receives such a glove treatment in this discussion.
- netsharc 4y ago
  Since I joined in on this thread, my "glove treatment" might be romanticizing it, but "helping out" in a quiet hotel/guest house in the mountains is surely a lot more kid-compatible than a coalmine. The top commenter's comment that the article glossed over the fact that kids were made to work in such a place feels overblown. Hey maybe the reality of this hotel work is a bit harsher, but since the reporter didn't shine a light on it, I'd assume she also judged the same way. If the article was about a coal mine and the NYT just glossed over the fact of child labor, then I would agree with such a comment; an article glossing over child labor in a coal mine would be shitty. Edit to add: I like your angle about "It must be an anti-EV brigade!" though, keep on investigating, you're on to a conspiracy! /s

jacquesm 4y ago

You could have made your point more effectively without the insults and the sleights.

shrimp_emoji 4y ago

Hey, that's where I live!

jryle70 4y ago

How do you know they are all family and not child labor working to help their families? After all child labor isn't a foreign concept in Afghanistan: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/31/1143143252/afghanistan-taliban-coal-mining-child-labor https://www.npr.org/2022/12/31/1143143252/afghanistan-taliba... I find it strange that child labor invokes such a strong feeling in any article about EV, being associated with cobalt mining, yet it receives such a glove treatment in this discussion.

netsharc 4y ago
Since I joined in on this thread, my "glove treatment" might be romanticizing it, but "helping out" in a quiet hotel/guest house in the mountains is surely a lot more kid-compatible than a coalmine. The top commenter's comment that the article glossed over the fact that kids were made to work in such a place feels overblown. Hey maybe the reality of this hotel work is a bit harsher, but since the reporter didn't shine a light on it, I'd assume she also judged the same way. If the article was about a coal mine and the NYT just glossed over the fact of child labor, then I would agree with such a comment; an article glossing over child labor in a coal mine would be shitty. Edit to add: I like your angle about "It must be an anti-EV brigade!" though, keep on investigating, you're on to a conspiracy! /s