My guess is it must be happening to an extent considering the difficulty in enforcing labour codes in a country of 2bil people. But there’s no evidence of systemic use of child labour the way it used to occur in, say, Victorian England.

Can't say I'm surprised. Just a horde of cut-throat individualists in tech, it's a miracle they even reached 1400 members.

FWIW, as someone with zero initiative, I really admire your courage in trying. Hang in there bud, you've got the ball rolling now!

I feel quite hesitant to engage with the self_improvement comm, when there are honest-to-god homeless people on this site. Puts my petty problems into perspective

So apparently China is doing a Hecking Censorship^TM^ by snubbing LGBTQ writers and those critical of the PRC in the latest Hugo Awards nominations. Anybody have a source for this that isn’t blatant Anglo hate-mongering?

Indiana Jones will probably never see a better game adaptation than Uncharted, it seems

I've read Laziness Does Not Exist, but I never could put any of the suggestions into practice. I would like to read this one because the poor nature of mental health resources in the region I live in, prevents me from gaining any real insight into my dysfunctions. On the other hand, I'm on the fence because all the reading I've done so far (and I've done a lot), has never really helped me to act on any of the stuff I've read.

I was wondering, can a tribal confederacy ever be able to mobilise the resources required to industrialise at scale? Like, could the Pashtuns modernise Afghanistan without there necessarily being an Afghanistan nation-state to begin with?

Seeing Tom Scott fly into the sunset was surreal. I'm beginning to feel like my time on the internet is also coming to an end, and soon it will be time to log off for good and touch grass until I'm buried under it.

Oh yeah, it definitely does that. Whitewashes one of the most irredeemable eras of the feds.

Weird, I’m an Elric nut myself but never thought to relate this to the chaos star

That soyjak looks like Christman in a conquistador helmet lmao