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Apply even an ounce of critical thinking to that, a 2-3 year old working in a factory is a fucking liability. You really think goo goo ga ga ass diaper baby is going to learn how to make widgets? THINK PLEASE
Repeating this here too bc people (shockingly) have too high an opinion of capitalism: Idk about 2-3 year olds in chinese factories, but there were 4 year olds in English factories described in Capital, so its the "in chinese factories" part that sounds least plausible to me tbh
Nothing is more productive than a giant room full of children crying and pissing on the floor
One day a Chinese slave-baby crapped their pants.
Wanna know what they found in their diaper?
That's right, the blueprint for interstellar travel.
But at what cost!!?1!
I don't know, I hear the USS Gerald R. Ford is doing pretty well right now.
I figure it was hyperbolic. I've always heard criticisms of child labor in sweatshops in China. I don't really know how to combat it because they never give any actual proof. I figure the rumors (or any truth if there is any) comes from the US exploiting them for cheap labor maybe?
Historically there certainly had been a lot of child labor in China (not toddlers, though), basically like in any other developing country except that China was bigger and had many more factories than the other examples, and there were of course many teenagers sent to work in various capacities in the Cultural Revolution, but it's not like that now though.
The people who are more up-to-date complain about suicide nets, 996, and penal labor. Ironically, the most infamous issues with Chinese workplace suicides (and accompanying sweatshop conditions) were from the operations of Foxconn, a Taiwanese company.
Thank you. I'll keep this in mind next time somebody brings up these arguments.
Sure I'd think they were being hyperbolic too BUT this is Americans we are talking about and our asses literally believe lies like the DPRK train pushers, so.