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I can't imagine 2-3 year olds being productive in any labour context.
No fine motor control. Abysmal gross motor control. Limited reasoning skills. Object permenance skills.
Someone with a psychology background should've rubbed their two braincells together on this issue and realize not to listen again to whoever told them this.
The news seems credible, until they talk about your domain - and you see how little sense it makes. She doesn't even care about how much sense it makes.
Doorstops don't need to do much.
the first 2 sentences is like a post you would see on linkedin
any country is a closed country when you don't speak the language lol
It's also a valid response to literally any comment possible.
So we've been told.
So we've been told.
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That’s hilarious. I heard the same thing from a Mormon missionary about Brazil. ‘Sad what socialism did to that country’. Say what?
My fellow Americans: "politicians always lie, only care about themselves and would sell their own mother for pennies" 
Me: "so we don't trust what they have to say about foreign countries they want to start wars with right?" 
EVERY single time.
"Well, missionaries... anyway!"
what does this mean???????????
but the missionaries said they saw xi jinping himself blow a child's head schmoove off
the god botherers would never lie for the benefit of the church would they
"A 3 year old? Really? You believe that 3 year olds who can't put the blocks in the right holes have the dexterity and mental capacity to be useful factory workers? Is that really what you believe?"
Idk about 3 year olds in China, but in Capital Marx does describe 4 year old factory workers in England so tbh "common sense" isnt a good argument here imo
Back then you could use children for things like filling bags and boxes with screws and nuts or whatever, but I very much doubt any of that sort of stuff isn't being made in huge automated factories in China at this point.
Someone else has made a point re: object permanence not kicking it i find more convincing
Regarding this point, in marxs time it was less "fill bags and boxes" and more "run stuff back and forth" or "squeeze into the machine and see if you can see whats jamming it", "sort these products into groups" or "push this button every time X happens"
Fake news. All the blocks go in the square hole
New type of guy: Abolish child labour because I don't trust kids to do good work.
Related to the "do you have any idea how expensive slaves were?" Type of guy
youre joking, but that was indeed a line of argumentation used by child labor opponents in britain during the XIXth century.
Bro said XIXth instead of 19th
is it uncommon in english?
Eh, I was just being a poophead since it takes longer to type out
ahh, sorry. its just that in my language we either use roman numerals or full words for this, so it didnt even occur to me that one could use indo-arabic numerals, lmao
Ahhh! Don't make me feel bad! I'm sorry!
dont feel bad! you helped me get better with my english! i should thank you
Abolish child ~~labor~~
The idea that China is a "closed country" is fucking wild, there are literally hundreds of millions of people travelling in and out of there every single year, not to mention the tons of Chinese people who work and study abroad who are in regular contact with their families back home, and likewise all the foreigners who work and study in China doing the same.
You should ask your therapist if they are an r/worldnews mod lmfao
It’s a “closed country” due to the something called the “Chinese language” which creates a black box of communication between westerners and Chinese comrades.
the great wall of china was a language barrier all along