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I hope you can read this
Waging should not be the concern of children in a first world country.
Waging should not be the concern of children.
Fact.
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Child labor is definitely not historically unique to capitalism, even in the modern era.
Stalin famously conscripted people into the labor reserve starting at 14 and the gulag system has plenty of history of child labor. And so on.
What’s the difference between prison and a gulag? The same difference between an oligarch and a billionaire
Edit: holy shit it’s like arguing with Colin Robinson don’t bother
Im not really sure how that has anything to do with my comment. You can’t dunk on capitalism for child labor and then be like “it’s ok if Stalin does it because capitalism does it.” That invalidates the original dunk, no?
I don’t know where you think I’m defending Stalin, I’m just pointing out, america uses juvenile detention centers for child labor as well. Gulags=prisons
You are the one who made a meme about capitalism and child labor?
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Children NOT being used for labor is a very recent phenomenon. It has nothing to do with the economic system of the country as the kids of rice farmers in Vietnam are harvesting rice just like the kids of rice farmers in North Carolina, USA are. Children not being used for labor is the results of automation and industrialization.
In the US it was actually the great depression that got a child labor law passed. there had been attempts to get something passed before, even attempts rooted in racism, but it wasn’t until everyone was out of work that everyone could agree maybe only adults should be working
Your username is amazing. Never doubt your greatness.
“Children should be free to earn their own money if they want to”
Liberals
Weird since it was liberals who pushed child labor laws in the first place. No one thinks this is new to capitalism.
Seriously in 3000 BCE millennia before capitalism there were kids laboring.
Edit: capitalism is not responsible for child labor. Child labor has existed for almost all of history until extremely recently and is not inherent to any system
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My point is kids were doing labor way before any economic system was in place and regardless of which system was in place.
Capitalism has a ton of flaws but it is not behind child labor as OP suggests
This is fallacious. There doesn’t have to be only 1 cause. Capitalism could be the reason child labor exists in the modern world, while there being other systems that can also support child labor.
The point is there are systems that don’t support child labor.
What systems do you think haven’t supported or used child labor? Every single society has utilized child labor or still does as again farming is a thing and most farms will have kids doing some work.
The idea that child labor is due to an economic philosophy rather than specific conditions is fallacious. Kids labor because we need them to and they do not do labor when we are fortunate enough to not need the labor they can provide.
We don’t have an accurate history of every society that has ever existed, so your claim is unverifiable. Don’t make impossible to verify claims.
I wouldn’t say a system supports child labor if it’s outlawed and heavily punished. In the same way that I’d say a system doesn’t support murder if it’s outlawed and heavily punished. Sure, every society we know of has had murderers, and child laborers might exist in the same capacity in most societies, even if they’re outlawed, but it’s not supported by said system.
Also, my claim was that a system exists where child labor isn’t allowed. Even if that system has never been put into practice (it definitely has, but just for the sake of argument), it’s obviously true. Maybe you’re unconcerned with hypothetical systems, and you’re absolutely convinced that the only practical systems that can exist are ones where we rely on the labor of children to succeed. You’d be a fool if you believe that, but I understand some people are foolish.
I mean even from the most obnoxious campist perspective, both the USSR and communist China have plenty of documented examples of Child labor which are arguably worse than anything in the US.
What systems are those?
Read the comment you’re replying to again?
This is the dumbest take I’ve seen in a while.
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If you actually think liberals in capitalist countries are the people that have used child laborers you’re pretty fucking stupid.
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Shut up lib
All im saying is that it sounds like baby need a nap.
Took you a whole day to come up with that huh?
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Please consider this:
“lemonade stands” don’t occur in other countries.
they do though, but lemonade stands aren’t really child labour
They are usually for fun and no one makes them do it and they are not doing it to put food on the table. It’s like playing grownup for them.
for fun
Yeah. Even the adults are playing. (Please give adults and easy way to dump the lemonade. Often, we don’t actually want to drink it.)
I always thought they were actually cringey.
