In defence of child labour (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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It is sadly not a satire article and comment section there has taken it quite seriously as well.

I would have posted an archive.org snapshot instead but the latter refuses to crawl the site due to pay wall restrictions.

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[-] cattywampas@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

I think the point is that the term "child labor" could be broadly interpreted as anywhere from teenagers having part time jobs to little kids slaving away in Victorian workhouses. There's obviously a lot of differences between those extremes and I think most people tend to think of something closer to the latter when they hear "child labor."

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