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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  In the 1800s you’d be counting yourself lucky you survived it.

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• SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Food was much cheaper and you were allowed to put them to work right away.

  Plus most of them died before five anyways.

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  • homes@piefed.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes, the 1800s… When it was perfectly legal to put newborn babies to work in the coal-mining sweat shops of South London

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    • sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Kids as young as 4 years old would be put to work, so it’s not that far off really.

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    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not just legal but encouraged.

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      • homes@piefed.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Encouraged by all the starvation and pestilence

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      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They yearn for the mines after all

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