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I wonder if those who exploited child labor talk about the times before and after child labor was "killed", or drug companies talk about the times before and af
by ImPostingOnHN 3y ago
I wonder if those who exploited child labor talk about the times before and after child labor was "killed", or drug companies talk about the times before and after thalidomide was "killed"
- RhysU 3y agoClearly, I am morally equivalent to child labor and thalidomide by attempting to correct that coal mining didn't collapse on its own but rather it was explicitly killed by executive action. </sarcasm> Next.
- ImPostingOnHN 3y agoyes, coal energy is worse for the world than thalidomide was, and the chip on your shoulder is enormous here if you have any reason the analogy doesn't apply, besides acting offended that it does, feel free to cite it, otherwise it just seems like you're bitter about coal being bad for earth
- Aerroon 3y agoWas child labor ever actually 'killed off'? As I understand it, its use declined before legislation hit, but even legislation never completely got rid of it. It just rebranded as "helping my family on a farm" or "helping my family shop" or "summer jobs" or similar. Eg this graph: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/incidence-of-child-labor-in-the-united-states https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/incidence-of-child-labor-... The 1920s is when education was made compulsory in the south and on the federal level it took until 1938 (which still excluded agriculture).
- ImPostingOnHN 3y agowas coal mining ever actually "killed off"? as far as I can tell, it, too, still exists