It's really easy to take for granted since most of us have never known any different.
It's really easy to take for granted since most of us have never known any different.
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My favorite "we had to regulate this" is coal mining. You see, the larger a coal mine tunnel, the more work and time it takes. So smaller tunnels will be more profitable. So in some places they preferred smaller women and children, so they could make make smaller, easier tunnels. This one I only ever found one source on, but supposedly one mine owner noticed that snags on clothing were slowing things down in the narrow tunnels so he insisted on sending them in nude. Nothing more capitalist than naked coal mining children.
I realy would like to fact check you on this, but i will definitely not search for "naked coal mining children". "Trust me bro" will have to do it for this one.
The fact that these fucks were not regularly dragged from their mansions and beaten to death blows my mind
You're not dragging Trump out and beating him to death. So why expect of your ancestors what you can't do today?
I'm not shaming nor advocating btw, just explaining.
I mean a single rich guy owning a mine in a time pre-internet seems a lot more doable than the literal most protected guy in the country.
Plus my children aren't literally dying in the mines
as humans, our arguably greatest trait is the ability to adapt to almost any circumstance. unfortunately that also often makes us accept unacceptable living conditions because changing them involves too high of a personal cost.
That's because you view things like this as isolated acts done by a few people. But don't forget, only 1/3 of US voters tried to stop a man who openly declared himself a fascist, had already had a direct hand in the spread of a world wide plague that killed millions.
The "they didn't know what they were getting into" excuse is no longer valid. And yet 2/3 of voters were fine with him being reelected . The reason those people weren't dragged from their mansions and beaten to death was because of all the other monsters who were protecting them. The people who weren't committing atrocities themselves, but benefited from it enough to help it keep happening.