We educate our youth, supposedly so they can contribute to society. In tribal life, if your father hunted he took you along and taught you how to hunt, or if your mother made baskets she taught you to make baskets. So in a weird way, child labor is just capitalisms extension to that model.
Teaching children useful survival skills in a subsistence hunter gatherer society - woke
Teaching children to operate machinery in order to make higher profits for robber baron capitalists - broke
I’m sure through grit and hard work they managed to get rich in later life.
Now this is pro life!
The children yearn for the mines.
Mining in particular was the beginning of a lot of unionization movements. People tend to think of hisroiv mining right leaning but they were pretty hard left and pushed hard to worker rights. Mining now is much more right leaning, which is pretty unfortunate.
https://open.spotify.com/track/4abZVfTVIKhVKazN3j6ROU?si=3uUp0ERfQ2eTzXv-oFk-Eg
Right leaning tends to happen over time as a generation or two forgets about how bad things used to be for them.
In late USSR miners were one of the most active strata. Pretty left. One can say, the only clearly left of that time’s protesters, because, well, around 1988 the general public in USSR was fed up with left ideologies.
See this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Heel_of_Oligarchy (it’s not too shit, from the eyes of Communists trying to find themselves a place in the society that is over them). EDIT: It’s an illustration to “fed up”, not to late USSR.
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yeah not gonna be “old” days for long. they’ve already started laxing restrictions on several states.
