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Down the mines or sweatshops?

Mines or Sweatshops?

  • Mines, because they love the dark.

    Votes: 2 33.3%

  • Sweatshop, a busy kid is a happy kid.

    Votes: 4 66.7%
  • Total voters
    6
stealthycat said:
if you'd have had your way, I've not have worked as a kid
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Sure, you would have. You just would not have been working 12-hour days.
stealthycat said:
without those many hours working, I'd not have had money to buy a car and pay for my college (what scholarships didn't cover)
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Not true. It would have taken longer.
stealthycat said:
you don't understand being poor - clearly
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I understand why you think this. I do understand and I do not oppose work; however, I object to children and teens being used as farm hands. That being said, I had a horse of my own once and he was a friend. I generally did not eat until after he was fed. One of my cousins had a bull called Rojo Diablo. He was actually not as bad as his name implies.
 
Peter said:
Yes, I would have stopped you from working and we have no idea what the results would have been.
It could be better or worse.
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except I lived it

I think that's the disconnect here - most posters were from richer, wealth privileged homes and don't understand being poor or working to have anything.
 
Peter said:
I think we can just leave this with the knowledge that you're in favour of child labour and let everyone decide what they think of that opinion.
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of course I'm in favor of a teenager having a job if they want to work
 
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