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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[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

This sort of anecdote is important, because it’s too easy to claim that working for your family is an exception, or that kids should be able to help out with the family business.

this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2026

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