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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[-] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 8 points 1 day ago

Let's skip to the part where we talk about how much they get paid, if they get paid at all. The type of people that the Torygraph caters to will want a huge workforce of children working for free, because it "builds character".

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